On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Jim Meyering wrote:
Good point. Yet another reason not to use gethostbyname. I think it's time to make the prohibition official.
I sure hope the Cygwin 1.7, which just released yesterday to formal beta trial, and brings in getaddrinfo() for my win 2000 porting box, _works_ -- perhaps deprecate it for a while first (understanding it is stated as 'prohibit all new uses ...')?
+# Not only do they fail to deal well with ipv6, but the gethostby* +# functions are also not thread-safe.
I think you mean to say here that the implementation you are encountering is not thread safe
# Avoid useless parentheses like those in this example: # #if defined (SYMBOL) || defined (SYM2) sc_useless_cpp_parens:
I infer you can divine the future as to how the g++ 4.7.x implementers will decide parenthesizing will be first warned, and then error-ed ;)
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