Re: E/SQL host arrays with defined sizes

Leonid Belov wrote: > Tim Friest wrote: > > > jcnsoft@my-dejanews.com wrote: > > > > > In article <36140893.9B804D99@saic.alaska.net>, > > > Tim Friest <friest@saic.alaska.net> wrote: > > > > I would like to use defines for the sizes of some of the arrays in my > > > > E/SQL C code... > > > > > > > > i.e. > > > > > > > > #define COLUMN_WIDTH 18 > > > I think this will work > > > EXEC SQL define COLUMN_WIDTH 18; > > > > > > > EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE; > > > > char column[COLUMN_WIDTH+1]; > > > > EXEC SQL END DECLARE; > > > > That sounds like what I'm looking for... However, I have the define in a > > header and it is used > > by other files besides the E/SQL-C stuff.... > > > > I've noticed that E/SQL doesn't pay attention to C compiler directives > > (i.e. #if ... #endif) > > These are preprocessor directives Yes, but ESQL handles C style comments, so it pays attention to some C stuff.... > > > > should I just have a section like > > > > #ifndef ESQL /* I made this up since I assume ESQL does not set any > > defines */ > > #define VARIABLE 42 > > #else > > EXEC SQL define VARIABLE 42 > > #endif > > > > or can someone think of a better way? > > Run C preprocessor before ESQL preprocessor > That wouldn't help because the EXEC SQL DEFINE is not a C construct, so I need a wayto define the same thing for both C and ESQL, but I can't use the same line because they do it differently... -- Timothy Friest - Science Application International Corp (SAIC) Anchorage Alaska 907-272-7105