FreeTDS Development Group

[ZIGLIO Frediano <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafoneomnitel.it>]

> 
> I don't like that implementation.  It tries to reinvent the 
> wheel, and won't
> behave quite the same as the native stdio calls on any given 
> platform.  In
> particular, its handling of floating point numbers makes me 
> really nervous.
> 
> Here is my new patch.  It's kind of a cheap trick but it gets 
> the job done.
> If you're really worried about complexity, we could use this 
> new approach to
> replace the non-threadsafe version too.
> 
> It could be made slightly more efficient and robust by not opening and
> closing the filehandle each time.  I'm not going to worry 
> about that right
> now, until there's a consensus that this is the way to go 
> (there's no point
> in putting more effort into this if somebody decides to use 
> Powell's version
> despite my concerns).  If this change is accepted and 
> committed, then I'll
> go ahead with that.
> 
I'll apply this patch.
Is similar to glib implementation.

freddy77

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