FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: ZIGLIO Frediano [mailto:Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafoneomnitel.it]
> Sent: May 9, 2003 5:42 AM
> > 
> > Of course, for cases where you *know* no conversion is 
> > warranted, you still
> > have memcpy(3) or some iconv-less library function at your 
> disposal.  
> > 
> 
> Well two function like
> 
> pbcb_copy(PBCB,PBCB)
> pbcb_convert(iconv_t cd, PBCB,PBCB)  (handling cd == -1 like 
> pbcb_copy)
> 
> Should fix both problems...

Yes, as long as the second behaves like the first if cd == -1.  

> There are a lot of functions that seem to do the same job. 
> Convert string using chunk. Perhaps using callback can help. 
> Think a function like this
> 
> typedef int (*tds_iconv_read)(void *param, char* buffer, 
> size_t max_read);
> typedef void (*tds_iconv_write)(void *param, char* buffer, 
> size_t max_read);
> void tds_convert(iconv_t cd, tds_iconv_read f_read, void * 
> param_read, tds_iconv_write f_write, void * param_write)
> {
>       char buf[256];
>       ...
>       while(...) {
>               ...
>               f_read(param_read, buf, to_be_readed);
>               ... (convert chunk) ...
>               f_write(param_write, buf, to_be_written);
>               ...
>       }
>       ...
> }

I like this idea very much.  

--jkl


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