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  • From: "Thompson, Bill D (London)" <ThompBil AT exchange.uk.ml.com>
  • To: "'FreeTDS Development Group'" <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [freetds] A new patch - various fixes
  • Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:02:01 -0000

Hi Jim,

Well this is what it came out with.....

"bcp.c", line 1742: warning: initialization type mismatch
"bcp.c", line 1742: non-constant initializer: op "U&"

I'll try the other suggestions and let you know....

Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lowden, James K [SMTP:LowdenJK AT bernstein.com]
> Sent: 19 March 2003 16:46
> To: 'FreeTDS Development Group'
> Subject: RE: [freetds] A new patch - various fixes
>
> > From: Thompson, Bill D (London) [mailto:ThompBil AT exchange.uk.ml.com]
> > Sent: March 19, 2003 9:42 AM
> >
> > Also changed initialisation of
> > a structure in bcp.c - my compiler (Sun workshop cc 4.2) objected...
>
> Lemme get this straight. Your compiler complained about:
>
> TDS_PBCB colclause = { clause_buffer, sizeof(clause_buffer) };
>
> even though both values are known at compile time (never mind that it's an
> ANSI standard construction)? I find this hard to believe, not because I
> don't trust you, but because I've been initializing structures that way
> since before Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard. It's explained and
> illustrated in section 6.3 of "The C Programming Language", copyright
> 1988.
>
>
> Does this work:
>
> enum {CLAUSE_BUFFER_SIZE = 4096};
> char clause_buffer[CLAUSE_BUFFER_SIZE] = {0};
> TDS_PBCB colclause = { clause_buffer, CLAUSE_BUFFER_SIZE };
>
> Does this:
>
> #define CLAUSE_BUFFER_SIZE 4096
> char clause_buffer[CLAUSE_BUFFER_SIZE] = {0};
> TDS_PBCB colclause = { clause_buffer, CLAUSE_BUFFER_SIZE };
>
> Section 2.4 of the same book, wherein initialization of variables is
> described, says initialization of automatic variables may be done with
> "any
> expression". I think someone should mention this to Sun? I could send
> them
> a copy.
>
> --jkl
>
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