Re: tds_get_size_by_type for SYBMSDATE

Frediano Ziglio  wrote / napísal(a):
> 2014-04-10 8:48 GMT+01:00 LacaK <[email protected]>:
>   
>>> 24 ?? On my 64 bit machine is 16 and should be 16.
>>>       
>> I did some testing and googling and it seems, that inter - padding in
>> structures can vary compiler to compiler.
>> (as C++ standard does not strictly defines binary layout)
>> It seems, that Microsoft uses his "own padding and sizing" with bit-fields.
>>
>> I did small change in TDS_DATETIMEALL, which gives me now 16 bytes size (as
>> in your case):
>> typedef struct
>> {
>>    TDS_UINT8    time;    /* time, 7 digit precision */
>>    TDS_INT      date;    /* date, 0 = 1900-01-01 */
>>    TDS_SMALLINT offset;    /* time offset */
>> // HERE "unsigned short" instead of "unsigned":
>>    unsigned short time_prec:4;
>>    unsigned short has_time:1;
>>    unsigned short has_date:1;
>>    unsigned short has_offset:1;
>> } TDS_DATETIMEALL;
>>
>> So now we have: 8 bytes + 4 bytes + 2 bytes + 2 bytes = 16 bytes (seems,
>> that no padding occurs at end because 16 mod 8 = 0)
>> Can you change please "unsigned" to "unsigned short" in definition of
>> TDS_DATETIMEALL ?
>>
>> -Laco.
>>     
>
>
> Was thinking the same. Probably even better TDS_USMALLINT
>   
I see, that you have already commited this change. Thanks.
Now I hope, that this struct will not change "often" in future, else it 
will break applications which will rely on exact binary layout of it.
(like other languages which link to dblib.dll)
-Laco.