From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 04:09:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix gcc-4 warning in accept() call
Message-ID: <20050930000917.rrwggw4g0gogs8w4@webmail.spamcop.net>
In-Reply-To: <200509292311.j8TNBZDm022135@inti.inf.utfsm.cl>

Quoting Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>:

> > +				unsigned int sslen = sizeof(ss);
>
> Shouldn't this be size_t?

No.  That would actually break things on big-endian 64-bit platforms.

You can see "info libc" for the whole story.  My (limited!) understanding is
that it should be 32-bit for compatibility reasons, so socklen_t was a trick to
fool size_t proponents from the POSIX committee :-)

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin