From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 04:46:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix gcc-4 warning in accept() call
Message-ID: <433CC31A.9090808@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050930000917.rrwggw4g0gogs8w4@webmail.spamcop.net>

Pavel Roskin wrote:
> 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 :-)
> 

Formally it should be "socklen_t" or "int".  It should *not* be 
"unsigned int"!

	-hpa