FreeTDS Development Group

["ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>]

> 
> > - dblib errors, Microsoft/Sybase. I realize that error 
> constants of the
> > two library are different!!! This means that libraries are 
> not binary
> > compatible and perhaps --enable-msdblib can have some problems... 
> 
> Well, not a problem, really. It might be interesting to see the
> differences.  We don't make any claim or attempt at binary 
> compatibility. 
> If you want to use FreeTDS, you use FreeTDS's sybdb.h.  
> Anything else is a
> crapshoot.  
> 

Yes, you are right... I confuse that msdblib with a binary compatibility. 
Perhaps the reason was that I use the same tests for our driver and ms odbc 
(under Windows) and I though it was the same

> > The
> > result is that using MS headers and FreeTDS's libraries can lead to
> > strange conditions handling errors (errors not handled in 
> the same way).
> 
> Example?  
> 

Simply if constants are different an error of X type is not detected and 
handled like a Y type... but this is due to wrong header thinking about 
binary compatibility!

freddy77