FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, "ZIGLIO Frediano" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>
wrote:
> > I like having the string, because it makes debugging easier.  
> > I agree that comparing two ints is faster than strcmp(), but 
> > I really don't thinks it matters.  Perhaps we can put this 
> > off until version 0.70 or something, when iconv is completely 
> > stable and well understood?  
> > 
> 
> It's not hard to modify and we have a static array to convert from
> numeric to string. I think 0.63 version.

It's much easier to understand strings when you're looking at a log or gdb
output.  I've written a few reverse-lookup functions for tokens, and I'd
just as soon not write another....

--jkl