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From: "dank at kegel dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org> To: glibc-bugs@sources.redhat.com Subject: [Bug libc/2486] New: <netinet/in.h> does not compile in C++. Patch with conventional fix available. Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:52:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20060324235219.2486.dank@kegel.com> (raw) This is a classic, longstanding bug in all versions of glibc and many other C libraries. The essence is that struct ip_opts { ... char ip_opts[40]; ... is not legal C++. The traditional way of fixing this is to capitalize the first letter of the member when compiling for C++. A patch which does this, and applies to all versions of glibc is at http://www.pengutronix.de/software/ptxdist/patches-0.5.2/glibc-2.2.5/generic/glibc-2.2.5-ip_opts.patch There have been repeated requests to fix this over the years, but for some reason, nobody filed a glibc bug report before! Here are a few old posts about the problem in general, and how it's been fixed elsewhere: http://cvs.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-wrapper?full=yes&numbers=681 http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-05/msg00791.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/ecos-patches/2002-06/msg00005.html http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=19880 So, time to apply this patch in glibc head (and to the head of the 2.3 branch, if possible)? -- Summary: <netinet/in.h> does not compile in C++. Patch with conventional fix available. Product: glibc Version: 2.4 Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: libc AssignedTo: drepper at redhat dot com ReportedBy: dank at kegel dot com CC: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2486 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
next reply other threads:[~2006-03-24 23:52 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2006-03-24 23:52 dank at kegel dot com [this message] 2006-03-25 0:51 ` [Bug libc/2486] " dank at kegel dot com 2006-03-25 0:52 ` dank at kegel dot com 2006-03-25 1:18 ` mec at google dot com
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