outputing a bit field via print, echo, or var_dump causes the process to go defunct.

--setup info
Apache/1.3.14 Ben-SSL/1.42
php 4.1.1
./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --with-xml --enable-ftp --with-sybase=/usr/local/freetds --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl --with-curl
freetds-0.51
mssql server 7.0

Here is an example
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$bit_result = mssql_query('SELECT some_bit_field FROM fake_table');

$bit_row = mssql_fetch_array($bit_result);

print $bit_row['some_bit_field'];
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--script crashes and the apache process goes defunct
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This SQL cast fixes it....
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$bit_result = mssql_query('SELECT Cast(some_bit_field AS varchar(2)) AS some_bit_field FROM fake_table');

$bit_row = mssql_fetch_array($bit_result);

print $bit_row['some_bit_field'];


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The actual script that led me to discover this problem was sigificantly longer and I was able to use the value as long as I never ouput it (I think the reslts of comparisons I made were false though. i.e. if ( $bit_row['some_bit_field'] == 1 ) {} ). The point is that you can include the value in the expression but never ouput it.