In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
> >
> > { these for are for netdb legacy compat}
> >
> > IIRC they were kept for 1.0.x compatibility, and the 32-bit unsigned support
> > of that was not so great. Moreover I didn't care enough to deprecate them,
> > but maybe we should.
>
> Eh, what are you talking about ? HostToNet ?
Yes. That's also the part that carried the "netdb legacy" comment.
> The 'On all platforms' was referring to 's_addr is cuint32'.
>
> > The newer (1.9.2+) htons etc functions (introduced with that name for Kylix
> > compat) are unsigned.
>
> We could deprecate HostToNet and let it call htons.
Yup. Same for short* etc. I'll deprecate them when I have time somewhere
today, and then will try to fix all warnings to the new ones.
_______________________________________________
fpc-devel maillist - [email protected]
http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
