[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:

> The protocol message that code is decoding contains a four byte signed
> integer field. A positive value indicates a number of bytes to follow,
> and the special value -1 is used to indicate an SQL NULL value (and no
> bytes follow in that case).

What are all the places where a special value of -1 means "null value"? 
 Is that the case both for "Bind" and "Function call" operations?

> Thus, the problem with the "n += l" is if l < 0 (which, in my original
> code that declared it a gint, it could be).

The original code was apparently not sent in

	http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/200412/msg00262.html

as the version in that code declares "l" to be a guint32.

So is the correct fix, then, to change "l" to be a gint and:

	for a value of -1, treat it as a null value;

	for any other negative value, treat it as an error?