FreeTDS Development Group

["Thompson, Bill D (London)" <ThompBil AT exchange.uk.ml.com>]

thanks, everybody

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Langasek [SMTP:vorlon AT netexpress.net]
> Sent: 10 February 2003 17:11
> To:   freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject:      Re: [freetds] tds_convert speed
> 
> 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
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