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From: das@trac2000.ueci.com (David Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: A little (:-)) bug in INFORMIX (2.10.03K)
Keywords: OUCH decimal string conversion
Message-ID: <1020@trac2000.ueci.com>
Date: 11 May 91 03:15:41 GMT
References: <1991May9.024936.15884@fivegl.co.nz->
Organization: UE&C - Catalytic in Philadelphia, PA
Lines: 27

In article <1991May9.024936.15884@fivegl.co.nz->, struan@fivegl.co.nz (Struan Judd) writes:
-> In the following program (shortened but complete 4gl) the stack
-> gets totally mucked up at the point shown :
-> 
-> 
->     database <database->
-> 
->     main
-> 	define L_num integer, L_dec decimal, L_str char(1000)
-> 
-> 	for L_num = 1 to 1000
-> 	    let L_dec = L_num / 3.141
-> 	    let L_str = L_dec { Things go haywire here }
-> 	    message L_str, L_num
-> 	end for
->     end main
-> 
Well guess what... you're right!  I'm running 2.10.03F and this gem dumps
a core on me every time (unless I use a "USING").  Interestingly enough,
Informix-RDS runs this correctly whether I use the USING or not... go
figure :-)

DAS
-- 
David A. Snyder @ UE&C - Catalytic in Philadelphia, PA

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