Re: JDK 8 RFR 8010371: getaddrinfo can fail with EAI_SYSTEM/EAGAIN, causes UnknownHostException to be thrown

[David Holmes]

Brian,

On 3/10/2013 5:40 AM, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
I agree that is an ugly style but it guarantees that mistakes such as
        if (error = EAI_AGAIN) {}

are caught at compilation time.

True but as I understand it this is not the preferred/common style in 
the JDK code.

David