On 28/11/12 06:21, Martin Sustrik wrote:
On 27/11/12 23:39, Bruce Evans wrote:
#include <netinet/in.h>
INADDR_ANY;
The above results in 'u_int32_t undefined' error, which it shouldn't
according to POSIX.
<netinet/in.h> is careful to only declare uint32_t, but then it is
broken and uses u_int32_t for INADDR_ANY and INADDR_BROADCAST.
u_int32_t is also misused extensively in the definitions of INADDR_*
and IN_* under __BSD_VISIBLE. INADDR_ANY is broken even if __BSD_VISIBLE
is nonzero (the default), because the u_int32_t pollution is not
automatically supplied with __BSD_VISIBLE. It takes including
<sys/types.h> (with __BSD_VISIBLE) to get it.
Yes. I figured out that including <sys/types.h> solves the problem. I
was just pointing out the bug.
If there's interest I can send a patch for INADDR_ANY and INADDR_BROADCAST.
I should also add that the problem is important because of feature
checking in different build tools. The tool usually checks the existence
of a symbol by trying to compile something like this:
#include <netinet/in.h>
INADDR_ANY;
int main () {return 0;}
If the compilation fails, it assumes the symbol is not defined. Which in
not true in this context.
Btw, I've found another similar problem. Trying to compile the following:
#include <getifaddrs.h>
int main () {return 0;}
results in:
/usr/include/ifaddrs.h:34: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list
before 'u_int'
Which, of course, means that the build tool (CMake in this case) reports
that getifaddrs.h file is not available on FreeBSD platform.
Martin
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