I wrote:
> ...
> So, with hindsight (always easy), it would have been better never to
> interpret
> unsigned input as signed numbers. After all, if people want to enter a
> negative
> number in hex form, they can use a minus sign.
etc.
Sorry for the bad text formatting in my previous message. I
Hi all,
Mark Rotteveel wrote:
>>> And I wondered if it isn't a bug that hex values with 1-4 digits are
>>> integer and not smallint. Or at least: shouldn't the engine have
enough
>>> context information to correctly convert 0x8000 to a smallint -32768
>>> instead of an integer 32768?
>>>
>>
>> I
04.08.2013 11:20, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
>
> Ok, lets not call it a bug, but an area of potential improvement: based
> on the context it should be possible to deduce that the literal should
> be a smallint. Therefor it should be possible to handle 0x8000 as -32768
> when assigned to a smallint and
On 4-8-2013 01:44, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
> On 03-08-2013 03:55, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
>> I just saw this question on Stackoverflow
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18026907/firebird-insert-hex-values-into-tables-arithmetic-exception
>>
>> And I wondered if it isn't a bug that hex
On 03-08-2013 03:55, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
> I just saw this question on Stackoverflow
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18026907/firebird-insert-hex-values-into-tables-arithmetic-exception
>
> And I wondered if it isn't a bug that hex values with 1-4 digits are
> integer and not smallint. Or
