FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>]

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> | 
> | Another way to fix this issue would be to have somthing like
> | 
> | #ifdef WIN32
> |    /* fix errno setting in some windows malloc implementations */
> |    if (msgno == SYBEMEM)
> |       errnum = ENOMEM;
> | #endif
> | 
> | Would you prefer this change? 
> 
> I think it is less intrusive and also documents what's broken and
> how you are working around it. I would say in the comment:
> 
> /*
>  * Unfortunately MingW uses the "old" msvcrt.dll (Visual C++ 2005 uses
>  * a newer version) which does not set errno when allocation functions
>  * cannot allocate memory, so we do it for them.
>  */
> 

Agreed, rollback and committed. MingW agree!

freddy77