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[Igor Korot <ikorot01 AT gmail.com>]

Karen,

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 4:11 AM, Karen Pease <Karen.Pease AT isavia.is> wrote:
> Then again, perhaps Sybase would have messed up on this as well.  (I'll 
> reiterate that this is old code that I didn't write that I've been tasked 
> to deal with).  The last platform it was on was 32 bit where long int was 
> indeed 4 bytes / 32 bits.  But on the new platform "long int" is 8 bytes / 
> 64 bits.  So maybe that's the problem if, as you say, INTBND is designed to 
> only write 4 bytes but there's an 8 byte value on hand.  I'll try 
> correcting our local definition to use an actual 32 bit value and see if 
> that solves the problem.

Or you can just call:

memset( <var_name> , 0, sizeof( <var_name> ) );

Thank you.

>
>  - kv, Karen
>
> ________________________________________
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> <freddy77 AT gmail.com>
> Sent: 7. ágúst 2016 15:00
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> Efni: Re: [freetds] "DB-lib error, no 20050, Attempt to convert data 
> stopped by syntax error in source field" - FreeTDS trying to convert to 
> SYBMONEY for some reason?
>
> 2016-08-06 18:58 GMT+01:00 Karen Pease <Karen.Pease AT isavia.is>:
>> That indeed was the problem - thanks a bunch  :)  I didn't have the sybase 
>> package installed, which was confusing, but apparently our app has some of 
>> the sybase headers in its include directory; I had to remove them.
>>
>> One more piece of weirdness I'm hitting... and it took me a long time to 
>> track down:
>>
>>         int32 count;
>> ...
>>         dbcmd (ET_fillas_dbp1, " select count(*) ");
>>         dbcmd (ET_fillas_dbp1, " from AIRSPACE_BOUND ");
>>         dbfcmd (ET_fillas_dbp1, " where Airspace_Vol_Name = '%s' ", 
>> volname);
>>         dbsqlexec (ET_fillas_dbp1);
>>         if (dbresults (ET_fillas_dbp1) != SUCCEED)
>>             return;
>>         dbbind (ET_fillas_dbp1, 1, INTBIND, (DBINT) 0, &count);
>>         dbnextrow (ET_fillas_dbp1);
>>         printf("%d, %X, %lX\n", __LINE__, count, count, count);
>>
>> So, obviously, count is just an integer, it should never be negative.  For 
>> example, if I run that query in in tsql, it returns '4'.  But the output 
>> in the code is:
>>
>> 4 4 7FFF00000004
>>
>> ... as if it's doing some sort of weird negative conversion (???).  It 
>> took a long time to catch because when I was just printing it out with 
>> "%d" it looked fine, but it was crashing me in a calloc statement.
>>
>
> I don't know your system but I suppose that sizeof(int) == 4 and
> sizeof(long) == 8 and you are doing something bad with printf. INTBIND
> is supposed to write a 4 byte integer. Explaining what's going on
> requires to understand how does variadic functions work and the
> architecture you are using.
> I cannot see the calloc call.
> How is defined the int32? Usually DBINT is safer.
>
>> Any clue what's going on there?  The dump ends:
>>
>> dblib.c:2031:dbnextrow(0x1afeb80)
>> dblib.c:2043:dbnextrow() dbresults_state = 2 (_DB_RES_RESULTSET_ROWS)
>> token.c:549:tds_process_tokens(0x1aff550, 0x7ffe79928be4, (nil), 0x1508)
>> util.c:165:Changed query state from PENDING to READING
>> token.c:564:processing result tokens.  marker is  d1(ROW)
>> token.c:1951:tds_process_row(): reading column 0
>> data.c:534:tds_get_data: type 56, varint size 0
>> data.c:587:tds_get_data(): wire column size is 4
>> util.c:165:Changed query state from READING to PENDING
>> buffering.h:305:buffer_transfer_bound_data(0x1afeb90 4040 -1 0x1afeb80 0)
>> dblib.c:7210:copy_data_to_host_var(56 [SYBINT4] len 4 => 56 [SYBINT4] len 
>> 0)
>> dblib.c:7252:copy_data_to_host_var() srctype == desttype
>> dblib.c:2117:leaving dbnextrow() returning REG_ROW/MORE_ROWS
>>
>>  - kv, Karen
>>
>
> Frediano
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