FreeTDS Development Group

[Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 01:04:54PM -0000, Thompson, Bill D (London) wrote:

> 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");
> }

vorlon@auric:~$ uname -a
Linux auric 2.4.19-rc1 #2 SMP Sun Jun 30 13:22:14 EDT 2002 sparc64 unknown
vorlon@auric:~$ ./t 
0000000100000000

vorlon@tennyson:~$ uname -a
Linux tennyson 2.4.18-xfs-1.1 #1 Mon Jan 13 15:23:29 CST 2003 i686 unknown 
unknown GNU/Linux
vorlon@tennyson:~$ ./t
0000000001000000

HTH,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer