FreeTDS Development Group

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

Freddy,

Not sure if you've found a bug or not.
The circumstances where this *might* be needed are obscure to say the
least.
If it is to be used, it should be stored in bcp_bind(), from the
prefixlen parameter to that function, but it doesn't appear to be.

It would only be needed as follows - taken from the bcp_bind() manual
page in sybase:

"prefixlen - The length, in bytes, of any 
 length prefix this column may have. 
 For example, strings in some non-C programming 
 languages are made up of a one-byte length prefix, 
 followed by the string data itself. 
 If the data does not have a length prefix, 
 set prefixlen to 0."

don't remove the code just yet, if you don't mind.

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of ZIGLIO,
Frediano, VF-IT
Sent: 28 January 2005 15:20
To: FreeTDS Development Group
Subject: [freetds] Field not used in BCP


$ grep -r bcp_prefix_len * | grep -v 'Il file binario'
doc/doxy.log:/home/freddy/cpp/freetds/freetds64/include/tds.h:872:
Warning: Member bcp_prefix_len of class tds_column is not documented.
include/tds.h:  TDS_INT bcp_prefix_len;
src/dblib/bcp.c:        if (bindcol->bcp_prefix_len > 0) {
src/dblib/bcp.c:                switch (bindcol->bcp_prefix_len) {

As you can note nodoy initialize or assign this field...

freddy77
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