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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: FreeTDS port to VMS V9.x on x86?
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:37:19 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 20:17:57 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> Unfortunately that means that the entire fallback algorithm
> in tds_vasprintf (write to null device to find output size,
> allocate buffer of correct size and then write to buffer)
> is broken.

What a dumb way to do it. Using the null device means making OS I/O calls 
-- needless overhead just to find out how long a string -- which is being 
put together entirely in userland -- needs to be.