>Description: Single quotes (') in comments may cause syntax errors. >How-To-Repeat: Run this MySQL code from a file, including the comment (running from the MySQL shell will also expose the bug, but you will not be able to complete the command without supplying a second quote):
/* MySQL's handling of comments is kind of flaky. */ SELECT * FROM MYTABLE; >Fix: Work around the problem by not using the apostrophe character (') in the comments of MySQL code. >Originator: Godless Infidel >MySQL support: none >Synopsis: Single-quotes in comments cause problems. >Severity: non-critical >Category: mysql >Class: sw-bug >Release: mysql-3.23.51 (Official MySQL Binary) >Environment: System: Linux devnull 2.4.7-10custom #1 Wed May 1 13:07:29 EST 2002 i686 unknown Architecture: i686 Some paths: /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/gmake /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/cc GCC: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98) Compilation info: CC='gcc' CFLAGS='-Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wtrigraphs -Wcomment -W -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat -Wparentheses -Wsign-compare -Wwrite-strings -Wunused -mcpu=pentiumpro -O3 -fno-omit-frame-pointer' CXX='gcc' CXXFLAGS='-Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wtrigraphs -Wcomment -W -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat -Wparentheses -Wsign-compare -Wwrite-strings -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsign-promo -Wreorder -Wctor-dtor-privacy -Wnon-virtual-dtor -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -mcpu=pentiumpro -O3 -fno-omit-frame-pointer' LDFLAGS='' LIBC: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 May 2 17:07 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.2.4.so -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1285788 Apr 2 11:58 /lib/libc-2.2.4.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27332668 Apr 2 11:42 /usr/lib/libc.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178 Apr 2 11:42 /usr/lib/libc.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 24 19:56 /usr/lib/libc-client.a -> c-client.a Configure command: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --enable-assembler --with-extra-charsets=complex --enable-thread-safe-client --with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static --with-client-ldflags=-all-static --with-other-libc=/usr/local/mysql-glibc '--with-comment=Official MySQL Binary' --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --with-extra-charset=complex --enable-thread-safe-client --enable-local-infile 'CFLAGS=-Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wtrigraphs -Wcomment -W -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat -Wparentheses -Wsign-compare -Wwrite-strings -Wunused -mcpu=pentiumpro -O3 -fno-omit-frame-pointer' 'CXXFLAGS=-Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wtrigraphs -Wcomment -W -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat -Wparentheses -Wsign-compare -Wwrite-strings -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsign-promo -Wreorder -Wctor-dtor-privacy -Wnon-virtual-dtor -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -mcpu=pentiumpro -O3 -fno-omit-frame-pointer' CXX=gcc --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php