Julien Laganier writes: > What breaks is linking software compiled on the new > system to library compiled on the old system.
That should still work. What breaks is a library that does something "strange" with the structure. The only issue, I think, is whether that strangeness is something warranted. > > (It seems to me that a new "AI_EXTPRESENT" entry in > > ai_flags would do the trick, though, in all cases > > other than attempted structure copies of > > 'addrinfo'.) > > This is exactly what the draft says: Right; that was a typo. I did mean AI_EXTFLAGS. I was saying that the mechanism appears to be sufficient provided that structure copy isn't an important usage. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
