Re: [PATCH] Fix gcc-4 warning in accept() call

> Quoting Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>:
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>>>+				unsigned int sslen = sizeof(ss);
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>>Shouldn't this be size_t?
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> 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 :-)
>