On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 09:32:19PM +0200, Stefan Weil wrote: > Add a type cast which was removed by commit > 213fd5087e2e4e2da10ad266df0ba950cf7618bf again. > > Without it, MinGW compilers complain: > > net/socket.c:136: warning: > pointer targets in passing argument 2 of ‘sendto’ differ in signedness > /usr/lib/gcc/amd64-mingw32msvc/4.4.4/../../../../amd64-mingw32msvc/include/winsock2.h:1313: > note: > expected ‘const char *’ but argument is of type ‘const uint8_t *’
Wow, that's messed up. sendto() is POSIX and the prototype shouldn't be const char *. It's easy for someone to remove this cast in the future. Please add a comment explaining that it's needed because MinGW headers don't have the POSIX version of sendto(). Thanks, Stefan
