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[Predrag Parmakovic <preparmakov AT yahoo.com>]

I agree with yours conclusions...
In the future I will use int ...

And to I add:
I am not using pa-risc, my system is on itanium. Itanium can be configured to 
work both as little-endian and big-endian. HP-UX configures it as 
big-endian(as far as I know, linux configures itanium as little-endian).
 
regards



----- Original Message ----
From: "ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>
To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 5:24:09 PM
Subject: Re: [freetds] Connection timeout problem on HP-UX


> 
> ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT wrote:
> > 
> > So:
> > - if linux or hpux (freebsd?? solaris?? tru64?? sgi??) use int
> > - if win32 use u_long
> > - if possible (that is not cross compiling) do a small test (using
> > configure)
> > - give error :'(
> > 
> > I don't like autoconf that much but I think I'll have to 
> write some m4
> > code before release... and even backport it !!
> 
> Before you do this, can you show me correct code that doesn't 
> work on all
> systems?  What is the "bug", exactly?  Which function are we talking
> about?  
> 
> It's always safe to assign an int to a long.  That's C.  
> Endianism doesn't
> matter.  
> 
> If there is a function that is defined differently in 
> different OS's (e.g.
> getservbyname_r) then we might need an m4 file for it, if 
> autoconf doesn't
> already handle it.  
> 
> I prefer to write correct code not obscured by preprocessor macros. 
> Sometimes we can include documented patches in the 
> distribution for broken
> OS's.  
> 

News (from manuals):

IRIX  int
Linux int
HP-UX int
*BSD  int
SCO   int

perhaps you should just use int...

I found this code
http://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/release24-maint/Modules/s
ocketmodule.c which prefer fcntl.

freddy77

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I agree with yours conclusions...
In the future I will use int on HP-UX (fcntl or ioctl...
And to I adds:
I am not using pa-risc, my system is on itanium. Itanium can be configured to 
work both as little-endian and big-endian. HP-UX configures it as 
big-endian(as far as I know, linux configures itanium as little-endian).

regards


       
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