Re: ecpg -D SYMBOL

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 03:49:14PM +1000, Luke McFarlane wrote:
> When defining a symbol on the command line with ecpg -D SYMBOL the ecpg
> preprocessor will replace that symbol with empty space in 'C' program
> space rather than limiting it to 'SQL' program space.

This indeed is a bug, but ecpg has never been designed to limit symbols
to SQL space. You're absolutely right that it should not use empty
space. I just fixed that in CVS. Now it correctly uses "1".

> It shouldn't touch anything outside EXEC SQL.

Why? That means you have to define most things twice.

> Also, if you try to fool ecpg by compiling with ecpg -D SYMBOL=SYMBOL it
> will sit in an infinite loop gobbling as much virtual memory as it sees fit.

Ah yes, another bug.

I just committed a fix for this as well.

All fixes went into HEAD and 7.4.

Michael

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