On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 22:35:17 GMT, David Holmes <dhol...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> We can replace `gethostbyname`, which is deprecated on Windows and Linux, 
> with `getaddrinfo`. This API is available on all supported platforms and so 
> can be placed in shared code. @djelinski pointed out that `getaddrinfo` can 
> resolve both IP addresses and host names so the two step approach used in 
> `networkStream::connect` is not necessary and we can do away with 
> `os::get_host_by_name()` completely.
> 
> The build is updated to enable winsock deprecation warnings, and now we need 
> to use `ws2_32.lib` we can drop `wsock32.lib` (as it is basically a subset - 
> again thanks @djelinski ).
> 
> Testing
>     - all Oracle builds in tiers 1-5
>     - All GHA builds
> 
> The actual code change has to be manually tested because the code is only 
> used by Ideal Graph Printing to connect to the Ideal Graph Visualizer. I've 
> manually tested on Windows and Linux and @tobiasholenstein tested macOS.
> 
> Thanks.

Looks good.

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Marked as reviewed by kbarrett (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12842

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