Re: setsockopt() compat issue

[jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)]

On Mar 9,  7:02am, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
} 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).

     Wow!  An int that is 32 times the size of a char.  Now, that's a
big int!  :->

}-- End of excerpt from Manuel Bouyer