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Re: gethostbyname2 / getipnodebyname



On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 06:20:23PM +0100, Jason Williams wrote:
| On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 11:58:38AM -0500, dman wrote:
| > grep tells me that function is declared in /usr/include/netdb.h.  With
| > g++ 2.95 I get the same error, but g++ 3.0 works fine.  I get the same
| > set of results with gcc.
| 
| Excellent, thanks, using 3.0 does indeed fix the problem. Is this a bug,
| then? (what package? gcc?)

I don't know for sure, but I just noticed this :

-- netdb.h :

#ifdef __USE_MISC
...
extern struct hostent *gethostbyname2 (__const char *__name, int __af) __THROW;
...
#endif


If you put
    #define __USE_MISC
above the include of netdb.h gcc/g++ 2.95 will work.


I don't know about this one, but I do recall some other situations
where changes in gcc 3.0 cause one version to work and the other to
"not" work, but really the problem is a programmer error wrt the
standards (one is more standards conforming than the other).

-D

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