Re: Optionally make compat socklen_t default to int in bootstrap?

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 07:23:43PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 > >  > #ifndef HAVE_SOCKLEN_T
 > >  > typedef unsigned int socklen_t;
 > >  > #endif
 > >  > 
 > >  > part of pkgtools/libnbcompat/files/nbcompat/netdb.h
 > >  > 
 > >  > use "int" instead of "unsigned int" when make gets OPSYS=SunOS.
 > > 
 > > IME, "int" is the proper type on nearly all platforms that don't
 > > provide a typedef.
 > 
 > That never was my experience and given how long this has been in the
 > tree, history seems to agree with me.

Historically it was always int. When people started cleaning up int
vs. size_t, a couple OSes started using size_t for socket lengths, and
then code broke, and posix came up with socklen_t. So most of the time
anything that isn't historical will have socklen_t, and anything
that's historical should use int.

But whatever, that was twenty years ago. And the right thing to do is
probe it in the configure script.

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David A. Holland
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