FYI,

I've traccked down my problems with running 32bit executables compiled using
mongw-w32-20090307 und Windows Xp x64 (SysWOW64 mode) to a bug in
gethostbyname() in SysWOW64, which is tracked by the forum entry:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/vcgeneral/thread/521a5524-5a5b-4de1-aec3-e12b93e25dbb/

The attached executable compiled using

i686-pc-mingw32-gcc gethostbynamesample.c -O2 -l ws2_32 -o
bin32/gethostbynamesample.exe

runs under WinXP x86, but crashes under WinXP x64/Server 2003 x64. The bug has
been fixed for Vista x64.

If compiled as a 64bit excutable everything works fine, just as expected ;-)

My question is: Is it possible to put write a workaround for this bug either by
modifying the atrtached test code or by adapting the gcc mingw-w32 toolchain?

  TIA,

    Wolfgang
#include <winsock2.h>
#include <ws2tcpip.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{

    //-----------------------------------------
    // Declare and initialize variables
    WSADATA wsaData;
    int iResult;

    DWORD dwError;
    int i = 0;

    struct hostent *remoteHost;
    char *host_name;
    struct in_addr addr;

    char **pAlias;

    // Validate the parameters
    if (argc != 2) {
        printf("usage: %s ipv4address\n", argv[0]);
        printf(" or\n");
        printf("       %s hostname\n", argv[0]);
        printf("  to return the host\n");
        printf("       %s 127.0.0.1\n", argv[0]);
        printf("  to return the IP addresses for a host\n");
        printf("       %s www.contoso.com\n", argv[0]);
        return 1;
    }
    // Initialize Winsock
    iResult = WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2, 2), &wsaData);
    if (iResult != 0) {
        printf("WSAStartup failed: %d\n", iResult);
        return 1;
    }

    host_name = argv[1];

// If the user input is an alpha name for the host, use gethostbyname()
// If not, get host by addr (assume IPv4)
    if (isalpha(host_name[0])) {        /* host address is a name */
        printf("Calling gethostbyname with %s\n", host_name);
        remoteHost = gethostbyname(host_name);
    } else {
        printf("Calling gethostbyaddr with %s\n", host_name);
        addr.s_addr = inet_addr(host_name);
        if (addr.s_addr == INADDR_NONE) {
            printf("The IPv4 address entered must be a legal address\n");
            return 1;
        } else
            remoteHost = gethostbyaddr((char *) &addr, 4, AF_INET);
    }

    if (remoteHost == NULL) {
        dwError = WSAGetLastError();
        if (dwError != 0) {
            if (dwError == WSAHOST_NOT_FOUND) {
                printf("Host not found\n");
                return 1;
            } else if (dwError == WSANO_DATA) {
                printf("No data record found\n");
                return 1;
            } else {
                printf("Function failed with error: %ld\n", dwError);
                return 1;
            }
        }
    } else {
        printf("Function returned:\n");
        printf("\tOfficial name: %s\n", remoteHost->h_name);
        for (pAlias = remoteHost->h_aliases; *pAlias != 0; pAlias++) {
            printf("\tAlternate name #%d: %s\n", ++i, *pAlias);
        }
        printf("\tAddress type: ");
        switch (remoteHost->h_addrtype) {
        case AF_INET:
            printf("AF_INET\n");
            break;
        case AF_INET6:
            printf("AF_INET6\n");
            break;
        case AF_NETBIOS:
            printf("AF_NETBIOS\n");
            break;
        default:
            printf(" %d\n", remoteHost->h_addrtype);
            break;
        }
        printf("\tAddress length: %d\n", remoteHost->h_length);

        i = 0;
        while (remoteHost->h_addr_list[i] != 0) {
            addr.s_addr = *(u_long *) remoteHost->h_addr_list[i++];
            printf("\tIP Address #%d: %s\n", i, inet_ntoa(addr));
        }
    }

    return 0;
}
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