Re: setsockopt() compat issue

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:55:13PM -0500, Bryce Simonds wrote:
> It should be noted that in the man page for setsockopt() and getsockopt()
> the option value said to be an "int", and does not specify a particular size
> of said int.  If on the Alpha platform the default size of an "int" is
> 64bits then (in my opinion) the functions should accept that platform's
> default integer size.  Any size of integer for this task should be fine for
> that matter.

No, on alpha sizeof(int) == 32. The issue here was that the application
was using a void* and not a int (and so was 64bits and not 32).


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