Hi:


Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:

>On 7 Jan 2004 at 0:05, Robert Tulloch wrote:
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>>I have written other udfs and never had a connection lost error before.
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> You must be a lucky dog, then...
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Have you seen this "connection lost" before when executing call to
udf/dll function?

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>>External Function which when tested by direct call to function in dll,
>>returns a proper case string.
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>>DECLARE EXTERNAL FUNCTION PROPERCASESTRING
>>VARCHAR(80) CHARACTER SET NONE
>>RETURNS VARCHAR(80) CHARACTER SET NONE
>>ENTRY_POINT 'fn_ProperCaseString' MODULE_NAME 'strudf';
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>>and dll code .cpp
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>>String __stdcall fn_ProperCaseString(String CheckString)
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> Shouldn't the function have __cdecl type? Are you sure that String
>is compatible with VARCHAR? Looking at the rest of the code I
>strongly suspect that you don't understand what VARCHAR is internally
>(it is not a character array). May be you should use CSTRING instead
>VARCHAR in function's declaration?
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Probably should Since I was not allocating it, no freeing it. Probbly
wrong here also.

> Memory management is suspicious too. When memory, allocated for
>ProperCase will be freed?
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> SY, Dimitry Sibiryakov.
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