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List:       freetds
Subject:    Re: [freetds] 0.65 (or whatever) Issues
From:       "ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT" <Frediano.Ziglio () vodafone ! com>
Date:       2007-04-19 9:36:49
Message-ID: F7F148C986A2A84F930FEB8C3B169EA002FBCD2D () OPDMEXO01 ! omnitel ! it
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> 
> > - 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

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