2010/1/11 Kristoff Bonne <[email protected]>:
> I have a small question concerning the value returned in "val_len" when
> returning a variable of type "oid".

"val_len" is always the size of the value being returned in "val".
Expressed in bytes.


> However, I have noticed that size of the element (as found in
> vars->val_len) is actually 4 times the number of elements in the oid.

Correct.
Or more accurately, it's the number of subidentifiers,
multiplied by sizeof(oid).




> Is this relation of "size = var_val_len / 4" something that is fixed and
> the same on all platforms?

   size = var_val_len / sizeof(oid)

would be safer.

Dave

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