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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: Funny about typing (not directly Ada related)
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 18:16:47 -0700 (PDT)
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On May 23, 5:49=A0pm, Yannick Duch=EAne (Hibou57)
<yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Hello people out there,
>
> Not the quote of the year, however funny enough to share this here with =
=A0
> 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 strin=
g
> > 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