HEADS-UP: ABI compatibility of getaddrinfo(3) was lost.

Peter Wemm peter at wemm.org
Sat Jul 23 18:30:26 GMT 2005


On Friday 22 July 2005 12:38 pm, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've nuked the padding for ai_addrlen member of struct addrinfo.  It
> broke ABI compatibility of getaddrinfo(3) on 64 bit architecture. 
> You have to recompile userland programs that use getaddrinfo(3) on 64
> bit architecture.

Please note that you'll need to recompile ports with shared libraries 
that reference this too.

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