OpenEuphoria

RE: Tsunami Record Manager

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Jan 25, 2002
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On 25 Jan 2002, at 23:16, Bernie Ryan wrote:

> 
> 
> Elliott Sales de Andrade wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Ok, so I almost wrapped this library. But i have one problem. What is a 
> > QUAD? I know what all the other types are and what to put them in as but 
> > 
> > Euphoria doesn't seem to have a tye for a QUAD. If anyone knows how it 
> > should work, could you tell me?
> > 
> > 
> A quad is a value 8 bytes long ( or 64 bits in size ).
> That value is returned by some functions as the record number
> in the database. So you have to wrap it so euphoria can grab
> a returned value that is 8 bytes long. The only way you might
> get away using it is a double float value; but if you read the
> databse docs you will see that errors are returned as negative
> numbers and record numbers are returned as positive numbers
> which may cause a problem using these 64 bit numbers.

Could it be accepted by Eu as an object, and then read as a sequence, and 
turned into a number with string math?

Kat