What feels nice is ...

[HairyArsedBloke]

We're supposed to be using Christmas avatars now. So HAB is subtly hinting that he'll be on holiday in Bermuda or somewhere for a month over Christmas, while most of us are stuck here in the UK shivering our nuts off

Somewhere in the Caribbean.


NO I'M FRAKING NOT.


I'm stuck in 'orrid London for .... only the great maker known how long.

I AM NOT HAPPY

[NotAllThere]

I found a feature in the SAP kernel. When converting data to hex, using the supplied kernel methods, the alignment bytes, used to make sure that integers, for example, begin on a word, are not zeroised - they are undefined. In fact, they contain whatever was in memory at that point already.

Bit of a pain when we're using the hex representation of the data to create a hash string, and we get different hashes on different runs

Fortunately:

FIELD-SYMBOLS: <l_hexvalue> TYPE x.
ASSIGN is_record TO <l_hexvalue> CASTING.

does set the alignment bytes to zero.

It's a feature, not a bug, because when I reported it to SAP, they just said - yes, that's what it does. It felt very good when I figured out the issue, and when I found the workaround, despite SAP's helpfulness.

[RichardCranium]

Speaking of the Carribean, can anyone remember Carribean Pirate's webcam address again?

Is that this one? The Royal Palms, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.

http://www.reefgrill.net/netcam/netcam.jpg

http://www.reefgrill.net/netcam/index.html