[unixODBC-dev] Status of BUILD_REAL_64_BIT_MODE?

[Nick Gorham]

ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT wrote:

>>I'm wondering how sane it is to consider turning on
>>BUILD_REAL_64_BIT_MODE in a 64-bit Linux distribution (I'm responsible
>>for Red Hat's packaging of unixODBC, if you're wondering).  
>>The comments
>>in sqltypes.h about it are pretty discouraging, but maybe 
>>that's obsolete
>>information now?
>>
>>I trolled the archives a bit and found
>>http://mailman.unixodbc.org/pipermail/unixodbc-dev/2008-Januar
>>y/001139.html
>>which suggests that Debian is enabling it but found several additional
>>fixes necessary.  Comments on the correctness/completeness of that
>>patch would be especially useful.
>>
>>			regards, tom lane
>>    
>>
>
>I wrote the mail :)
>
>IMHO we should push BUILD_REAL_64_BIT_MODE like Debian does. The main reason is that main
>ODBC platform (win64) use it! Converging all to a single definition is better.
>After many posts to Microsoft I get this page
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms716287(VS.85).aspx! There are currently some
>issues (for instance SQLROWSETSIZE should be SQLULEN, not SQLUINTEGER) but mostly should
>work. The real problem is drivers which should be checked better but I think that if
>Debian is compiling unixODBC with BUILD_REAL_64_BIT_MODE defined they already fixed many
>issues for you :)
>
>Frediano Ziglio
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Yes, I agree, as I said I have made it the default in 2.2.13, now I have 
the mailing list back up, the only thing thats stopping me releasing it 
is a bit of testing from someone other than myself, so peeps,  please 
try it and let me know.

-- 
Nick Gorham
Easysoft Limited
http://www.easysoft.com, http://www.unixODBC.org