Re: asdbget - precision

Response at end...

"Jason M. Felice" wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 05:20:28PM -0500, Sean Porterfield wrote:
> > Toward the end of this function, what is the purpose of "v = -v;" ?
> > It's what is causing my precision to show as negative on some fields in
> > my XML (I haven't yet found a pattern or reason).  Before I just comment
> > it out, I wanted to see if it had a purpose.  It may well be indicitive
> > of a hidden bug somewhere, of a misunderstanding due to OS400 version
> > differences.
> >
> > (I'm on V4R2)
> >
> > /* Convert a signed decimal field to a C `int' */
> > static int
> > signed2int (buf, len)
> >         Byte *buf;
> >         int len;
> > {
> >   int v = 0;
> >   while (len)
> >     {
> >       v *= 10;
> >       v += buf[0] & 0x0f;
> >       len--;
> >       buf++;
> >     }
> >   if ((buf[0] & 0xf0) == 0xd0)
> >     v = -v;
> >   return v;
> > }
>
> This converts an AS/400 signed field to an integer (we should probably be
> converting to a long, but that doesn't matter on 32-bit architectures).  This
> is IBM's zoned-decimal format, which stores one digit per byte and zone-shifts
> the last digit if the field is negative.
>
> Basically, ebcdic digits zero through nine are X'F0' - X'F9', but the last
> digit is converted to X'D0' - X'D9' for a negative number.
>
> However, looking over it for the fifth time, the function is in error.  Try
> this instead:
>
> /* Convert a signed decimal field to a C `int' */
> static int
> signed2int (buf, len)
>         Byte *buf;
>         int len;
> {
>   int v = 0;
>   while (len)
>     {
>       v *= 10;
>       v += buf[0] & 0x0f;
>       len--;
>       if (--len == 0 && (buf[0] & 0xf0) == 0xd0)
>         v = -v;
>       buf++;
>     }
>   return v;
> }
>
> It seems we were checking the zone of a random garbage character (the first
> character after the end of the field).  I've just fixed this in CVS.
>
> -Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
>

CVS code doesn't have the len--; line in it.  When I keyed exactly as you have 
it
here, I got a seg fault/core dump when it was "RETR QTEMP/FIELDS"

Using the code from CVS does not cause the crash.  I haven't checked for any 
other
problems yet.

Thanks for your quick response!

Sean

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