Re: c++/3688: Somehow, an int is getting involved when getting sizeof a struct sockaddr variable.

[rodrigc at gcc dot gnu dot org]

Synopsis: Somehow, an int is getting involved when getting sizeof a struct sockaddr variable.

State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
State-Changed-By: rodrigc
State-Changed-When: Sun Sep  2 02:03:03 2001
State-Changed-Why:
    I don't think gcc is at fault.
    Between Solaris 2.6 and 2.8, the function prototype
    of a lot of the socket functions like accept() have
    changed to accept socklen_t.  This was done in accordance
    with the Single Unix Specification, version 2:
    http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xns/accept.html
    
    The reason for having socklen_t instead of int, is to have
    networking code which works correctly on 64-bit and 32-bit
    platforms.
    
    You need to report this problem to the mozilla project,
    where they need to fix their socket code so that it works
    on platforms which use socklen_t, and on platforms without
    socklen_t.
    
    

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