FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Thompson, Bill D (London) [mailto:ThompBil AT exchange.uk.ml.com]
> Sent: February 10, 2003 8:05 AM
> 
> 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:

Golly, Bill, I don't know.  This could take awhile.  But, OK, since we might
get faster money...

$ uname -a
NetBSD 1.5.2 (GENERIC) #3: Sat Aug 18 23:37:05 CEST 2001
he AT hamster.urc.uninett.no:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
$ cat >t.c
#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");
}
$ make t
cc -O2   -o t t.c
$ ./t
0000000001000000

Is that what you wanted?

--jkl


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