Re: [cp-patches] RFC: checking for socklen_t

[Andreas Tobler]

Christian Thalinger wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I tried to compile classpath on a quite old system:
>
> $ uname -a   
> OSF1 mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at V4.0 878 alpha
>
> And on this system socklen_t isn't defined.  This macro taken from
>  http://ac-archive.sourceforge.net/Miscellaneous/type_socklen_t.html
>
> checks for socklen_t and define it to `int' if not found (Andrew Pinski
> will surely complain here ;-)

Well, he hasn't yet, but I'll add my comment here.

I'd like to see it as an unsigned int and not an int. Most systems I 
know use unsigned int for socklen_t. Posix.1g also recommends to use 
uint32_t for socklen_t.

Andreas