Thread: preprocessor bug?

preprocessor bug?

From
Michael Meskes
Date:
IMO this is a rather serious bug:

{
exec sql begin declare section;
    long i;
exec sql end declare section;
    ...
    {
        exec sql begin declare section;
                short i;
        exec sql end declare section;
        ...
    }
    ...
    some DB access into i;

The code produced by ecpg now lists i with size 2 bytes, i.e. it still
thinks i is a short.

I believe I have found a way to work around this and disregard variable
definitions as soon as they are no longer valid.

To my big surprise though I noticed that ORACLE's proc suffers from the same
bug. I hope it's okay with you that I don't care about compatibility and fix
this. :-)

Michael

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Re: [HACKERS] preprocessor bug?

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
> To my big surprise though I noticed that ORACLE's proc suffers from the same
> bug. I hope it's okay with you that I don't care about compatibility and fix
> this. :-)

Fix it, please.

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