Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 22:08:30 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: nectar@freebsd.org, standards@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, ume@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFR] correct type of addrinfo.ai_addrlen and netent.n_net Message-ID: <867jhfb1kx.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20050531.140334.74683681.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <86k6lfbafu.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050531.115338.74685129.imp@bsdimp.com> <86fyw3b4c2.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050531.140334.74683681.imp@bsdimp.com>
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Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> writes: > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> writes: > > Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> writes: > > > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> writes: > > > > What do we gain from removing the padding? Is there even a single > > > > practical benefit to doing so? > > > It is for posix compatibility. > > Nonsense. POSIX does not forbid padding or additional structure > > members. The exact wording is: [...] > Did you bother reading what I posted? I don't think so since you'd > have known that ai_addrlen was changed to be socklen_t for posix > compliance, and the padding was added for ABI compatibility. The > removal of padding is the normal sort of thing that's done during > major revisions. It was there, indirectly, for POSIX compliance. I know that. I am questioning the need to *remove* the padding, as you would know if *you* had bothered reading what *I* posted. I've included it so you can double-check. > Maybe the padding removal is too painful given all the extra 'oh, by > the ways' that we're stumbling over. That is exactly what I'm saying. BTW, could you please fix your MUA to correctly attribute quotes? DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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