FreeTDS Development Group

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

> 
> Hi,
> 
> James mentioned that we had a different method of converting 
> money types to
> char, that was backed out because it didn't work on little 
> endian clients.
> 
> I reckon I know what the problem was with this. 
> If someone could compile the following program on a little 
> endian box and
> send me the output, it would help confirm my analysis:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> main() {
> 
> long long myll;
> char *p;
> int i;
> 
>       myll = 4294967296;
>       for (p = (char *) &myll, i = 0; i < 8; i++, p++) {
>               printf("%02x", *p);
>       }
>       printf ("\n");
> }
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Bill
> 

Using HP/UX 10.20 and replacing 4294967296 with 4294967296llu (using bundled
compiler, not gcc)

# ./a.out
0000000100000000

(what I expected)

freddy77

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