Re: BUG #14267: ecpg bug causes hanging for certain data types

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 07:30:42PM +0000, nilesoien(at)gmail(dot)com wrote:
> The following bug has been logged on the website:
> ...
> We have a program that compiles with ecpg that seemed to hang until we
> changed the type of a variable from "unsigned long long" to be simply "long
> long int".

Thanks for finding this.

> We think we've tracked this down somewhat.
>
> It appears that there might be a defect in the guard statement that appears
> on lines 377 and 378 of data.c (in the ECPG C preprocessor in PG version
> ...

And more thanks for tracking it down. I have no idea why this ages old code is
still in there. Apparently not many people use unsigned long long. Anyway, a
fix will be pushed as soon as I'm online again.

Michael
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