Re: FreeTDS port to VMS V9.x on x86?

On 6/23/2025 8:37 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 20:17:57 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

Unfortunately that means that the entire fallback algorithm
in tds_vasprintf (write to null device to find output size,
allocate buffer of correct size and then write to buffer)
is broken.

 What a dumb way to do it. Using the null device means making OS I/O calls
-- needless overhead just to find out how long a string -- which is being
put together entirely in userland -- needs to be.

Fallback algorithms are often primitive.
But if you have a simple better way of achieving it then please send
the code to Craig so he can send it upstream.
Arne