Re: 5.2.2.pre3 and IRIX 6.5

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 11:20:26AM +0100, Dave Shield wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 12:05 -0500, Albert Chin wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 12:55:26PM +0100, Dave Shield wrote:
> > > The inet_addr() and inet_ntoa() checks seem to be responding
> > > to specific IRIX problems. Simply removing these settings without
> > > further investigation is probably unwise.
> >
> > It's defined in <arpa/inet.h> on 6.5.23m:
> > extern char *inet_ntoa(struct in_addr);
> >
> > It doesn't cause a problem during the build. I don't know if it is
> > needed for an earlier IRIX release.
>
> Checking the history, the suppression of <arpa/inet.h> dates
> from November 2001 (as does the explicit inclusion of
> <netinet/{tcp,ip}.h>) - though the explanation was only added
> some time later.
> The explicit declaration of 'inet_ntoa()' is clearly a
> consequence of not including <arpa/inet.h>
>
>
> What is the definition of inet_addr() in <arpa/inet.h> ?

extern in_addr_t inet_addr(const char *);

--
albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)


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