Re: SQLPutData() with a size of zero

Version 0.92.556 seems to fix this problem.
Thank you Frediano.
Seb

On 03/11/2013 05:51 PM, James K. Lowden wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:36:52 +0100
> Sebastien FLAESCH<[email protected]>  wrote:
>
>>                           p = (TDS_CHAR *) malloc(len);
>>                   }
>>                   if (!p) {
>>                           odbc_errs_add(&stmt->errs, "HY001",
>> NULL); /* Memory allocation error */ return SQL_ERROR;
>>                   }
>>
>>
>> and here malloc(0) returns zero (AIX 6.1)...
>
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/topic/com.ibm.aix.basetechref/doc/basetrf1/malloc.htm#malloc
>
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/malloc.html
>
> Huh.  Learn something new every day.  I thought malloc could return
> NULL only for failure.  But the standard says,
>
> 	"If size is 0, either a null pointer or a unique pointer that
> can be successfully passed to free() shall be returned. "
>
> It looks like you want _LINUX_SOURCE_COMPAT.  Either that, or change
> the test to
>
> 	if( len&&  !p )
>
> While you're at it, you can remove the casts to to malloc.  We got rid
> of them once, but they keep regenerating.
>
> Thanks for pointing this out, no pun intended.
>
> --jkl
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