Hi,
It would be good if libecpg to support e.g. "char **strings" instead of
"char *strings[]" for preallocated strings and the array of those.
IIRC, the first version overwrote my stack in a test programme, as these
two are treated the same but they are not.
Also, as "numeric" is supposed to be allocated using PGTYPESnumeric_new(),
we would need to support array of pointers to numeric, as well as the
current
static array of numerics. There's no way PGTYPESnumeric_free() works
on a static array, e.g. glibc will abort the app with a debug output of
free() on
an invalid pointer. Freeing the "digit" pointer manually is ugly,
numeric has
accessor functions, after all. Not doing anything leads to a memory leak.
Somehow digitbuf_free() should be make visible outside for such static
numeric variables.
These and other types came up regarding problems with "FETCH N"
in ECPG. All boils down to the same problem: "sometype *ptr" is
not equivalent to "sometype ptr[]" if you use &ptr, which is used
by ECPG in most cases.
Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi
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