Peter Eisentraut writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > Depending on the version of Solaris and the compiler flags the
> > third argument can be a pointer to socklen_t, void, size_t or
> > int.
>
> The argument is question cannot possibly be of a different width
> than int, unless someone is *really* on drugs at Sun. Therefore,
> if the third argument to accept() is "void *" then we just take
> "int". Evidently there will not be a compiler problem if you pass
> an "int *" where a "void *" is expected. The fact that int may be
> signed differently than the actual argument should not be a
> problem, since evidently the true argument type varies with
> compiler options, but surely the BSD socket layer does not.
Unless there is more than one library that implements accept, or if
accept is mapped as a macro to another function.
Whatever, I'd be happier if "void *" were mapped to "unsigned int*" as
that is what the Solaris 7 library is expecting. But it's no big deal
if you want to go with signed.
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