Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
>
> In crypto/bio/b_sock.c, there's a call to getsockopt() that gets &size
> as last argument. size is of type int, but according to X/Open, the
> socket routines like getsockopt() shall get sizes with the type
> size_t. On most systems, size_t is the same as "unsigned int", which
> in pedantic mode (gcc -pedantic, or DEC C by default) will get you a
> warning.
>
> So, the question is, shall we go for X/Open standards? I think we
> should. Question is how many compilers will break because of this.
gcc on FreeBSD with -pedantic, for one. I don't mind having a special
type just for getsockopt that gets done differently on different
platforms... but then, I'm like that!
> Another solution would be to cast &size to (void *) <hawk, spit>...
Gak! Never!
Cheers,
Ben.
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