FreeTDS Development Group

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

> Iconv problem:
> 
>   I'm using native VMS iconv. I first tried to copy necessary
>   files with the names FreeTDS expects, without success.
>   I then tried to put the VMS names in
>   alternative_character_sets.h, but tds_canonical_charset_name
>   doesn't seem to be used.
>   Finally I added them in character_sets.h.

Ach.  I see I missed something: We look up byte/char based on charset name.


It seems we need alternative_character_sets.h after all, so we can get the
GNU name, and use that to search src/tds/character_sets.h for the character
sizes.  Consider this broken for now.  :-(  The place to patch is
src/tds/iconv.c::bytes_per_char.  That function should call
tds_canonical_charset_name() before searching its charsets array.   

I'm thankful for any help.  As you can see, things are a bit unstable atm,
but questions like yours provoke thought, sometimes even while the lights
are on.  ;-)

>         /* *input_size += output_size; BG: should decrement */
>         *input_size -= output_size;

Committed, thanks.  

>   what is the purpose of emul_little_endian ?
>   That should be only applicable to the client side, shouldn't?
>   Anyway, I had to leave it to 0 with this kind of code:
> 
> #ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
>         if (IS_TDS7_PLUS(tds)) {
> #ifndef VMS
>                 /* TDS 7/8 only supports little endian */
>                 tds->emul_little_endian = 1;
> #endif
>         }
> #endif

See how WORDS_BIGENDIAN is defined and make sure it's 0 for VMS.  On unixy
systems, the configure script sets it based on system interrogation.  It
would be well to note this in the VMS readme.  

This reminds me about floats.  IIRC Craig is on Alpha.  If you're on VAX,
you can't exchange floating point data with the server, because VAXen don't
use IEEE floating point bit patterns.  

You're right, it's client-side.  We know in what form we'll get the data
from the server, and sometimes have to adjust it to suit the client.  

Regards, 

--jkl


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