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.

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