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  • From: "Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>
  • To: "'TDS Development Group'" <freetds AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Changing return codes from tds_convert()
  • Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:53:17 -0400


> From: Castellano, Nicholas [mailto:Nicholas_Castellano AT acml.com]
> Sent: September 24, 2002 4:44 PM
>
> tds_convert() doesn't take an output buffer. It allocates
> enough space in
> the CONV_RESULT and places the result there. The calling
> layer then checks
> how much it got back, and either copies out the result or
> complains if the
> user-provided buffer wasn't big enough. Very cool stuff.

Ah, yes, I remember now. I'm glad you like it; I wasn't too keen on it
myself.

I like the rest of your plan. Especially doing away with the ungainly name
"tds_convert_noavail()". Sorry, fellas, but that disqualified our entry in
the C poetry contest.

> --nick

--jkl


>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-freetds-145195 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
> [mailto:bounce-freetds-145195 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 4:37 PM
> To: TDS Development Group
> Subject: [freetds] RE: Changing return codes from tds_convert()
>
>
> > From: Castellano, Nicholas [mailto:Nicholas_Castellano AT acml.com]
> > Sent: September 24, 2002 4:29 PM
>
> > #define TDS_CONVERT_FAIL -1 /*
> > Unspecified failure
> > *./
> > #define TDS_CONVERT_NOAVAIL -2 /* Requested
> > conversion does not
> > exist */
> > #define TDS_CONVERT_SYNTAX -3 /* Syntax error in
> > source field */
>
> What's the error for, "not enough room in output buffer, fool!"?
>
> --jkl
>
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