From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
Subject: Re: Funny about typing (not directly Ada related)
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 18:16:47 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2011-05-23T18:16:47-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <24c83e59-2415-4919-9d84-11c529a2aa99@d19g2000prh.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: op.vvym87dnule2fv@douda-yannick
On May 23, 5:49 pm, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
<yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Hello people out there,
>
> Not the quote of the year, however funny enough to share this here with
> you.
>
> http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/facilities/documentation/unix/unix-socket-...
> says
>
> > 4.10 How do I use the gethostbyaddr() function?
> > From Andrew Gierth ( andr...@microlise.co.uk):
> > Many people are confused by the fact that the address parameter to this
> > function is declared as char*. That doesn't mean it's a character string
> > representation of the address!
>
> Cheese, and have a cool night
That page appears to be from 1996. A quick "man gethostbyaddr" has
the first parameter declared as "const void *". I don't know when
that change was made.
-- Adam
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