FreeTDS Development Group

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

Sergey Semenyuk wrote:
> libtds uses string that looks like "%b %e %Y ..." for default locale
> format. VC strftime DOES NOT happen to support %e in the format, and
> using it makes the whole thing generate GPE (0d). Isn't it nice? I've
> changed %e to %d, and it did the job.

http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/strftime.html

It's too bad standards compliance is so difficult.  My NetBSD manual
indicates %e, while part of SuS3, is not defined by C99 (ISO/IEC
9899:1999).  But "If a conversion specification does not correspond to any
of the above, the behaviour is undefined." Still, IMHO crashing the system
is a suboptimal choice.  

Thanks for the heads-up.  A quick scan of the code shows about 9 such
strings.  They should become global static constants, wrapped in an #ifdef
to use %d when WIN32 is defined, else %e.  That's an afternoon's work for
someone who cares to do it right.  

Blank padding is Sybase's behavior IIRC, so %e is preferable to %d.  

--jkl