Re: Porting C programs written for AIX

thanks for the info - I do have access to the AIX programmer and will pass
this on.
Jim

On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Aaron Albertson <albertaa-r/[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> Hi Jim,
>
> 'char *newformat[30];' is a declaration of an array of 30 character
> pointers.  I would guess that the 'format' variable is either declared
> similarly, or declared as a pointer to char pointer (char **).  It appears
> that the code is trying to cast the pointer to a char pointer to get at the
> first element of the array.  This shouldn't have even worked on AIX.
> Without seeing the rest of the code for context I'm not sure what the
> intended behavior here is, but I would say that at the error point it would
> appear that they are trying to compare the first element of each array.  I
> would recommend replacing the strcpy with something like this:
>
> strcpy( newformat[0], format[0]);
>
> That should get rid of the error.  Without seeing the rest of the code I'm
> not sure whether it's the correct thing to do though...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aaron Albertson
>
>
> "C400-L" <c400-l-bounces-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote on 02/03/2017 09:56:44 AM:
>
> > From: Jim Franz <[email protected]>
> > To: c400-l-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]
> > Date: 02/03/2017 09:57 AM
> > Subject: Re: [C400-L] Porting C programs written for AIX
> > Sent by: "C400-L" <c400-l-bounces-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
> >
> > this is our include section (which I am seeing referenced with err
> CZM0280)
> >
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > #include <stdlib.h>
> > #include <string.h>
> > #include <sqludf.h>
> > #include "veapi.h"
> > #include "vefpe.h"
> >
> > jim
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Jim Franz <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > (previously posted in midrange-l with very little response)
> > >
> > > Working on a proof of concept project to port a aix implementation of C
> (I
> > > am told it is C, not C++ but wouldn't know the diff if it hit me in the
> > > face..)
> > >
> > > Large multi platform company, we are the only Power i in the mix of AIX
> > > and MS-SQL and .net.
> > > The C code is an encryption package where we can all pass data back and
> > > forth (and we do a lot of that)  but handle the encryption of sensitive
> > > info. They have written C wrappers around a package of C from HP called
> > > Voltage.
> > > We have the source for the wrappers, but compiling the C on "i" not
> > > working. We have solved the includes issues, but getting down to
> messages
> > > like line 47 :
> > >
> > >    39     1 |    int      status = 0;
> > >                                               |
> > >    40       |    char *newformat[30];
> > >                                                            |
> > >    41       |
> > >                                        |
> > >    42     2 | if (SQLUDF_NULL(text_ind) || SQLUDF_NULL(format_ind))
> > > {                                          |
> > >    43     3 |        *out_ind = -1;
> > >                                                  |
> > >    44     4 |        return;
> > >                                                             |
> > >    45       |    }
> > >                                                                 |
> > >    46       |
> > >                                        |
> > >    47     5 |    strcpy( newformat, (char *) format)
> > > ;                                                         |
> > >    47     5 +    (__strcpy((newformat),((char *) format)))
> > > ;                                                   +
> > >
> ===========> ..............a.............................................
> > > ......................................
> > > *=SEVERE==========> a - CZM0280  Function argument assignment between
> > > types "char*" and "char**" is not allowed.
> > >    48     6 |     if (strcmp( (char *) format, "ShortDate" ) == 0 )
> > > {                                          |
> > >    49     7 |         int result = 0;
> > >                                               |
> > >    50     8 |      result = GetYear(text);
> > >                                                      |
> > >
> ===========> ...............a............................................
> > > ......................................
> > > *=WARNING=========> a - CZM0304  No function prototype given for
> > > "GetYear".
> > >
> > > IS there a conversion of source needed to ILE C?
> > > Is line 40   char *newformat[30];    correct - I can't find anything
> like
> > > that in google...
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Jim Franz
> > >
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