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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>,
	Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Calling functions through a pointer of incorrect type
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 21:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56FAF335.7080702@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1603222125470.14539@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

On 03/22/2016 02:33 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2016, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>   if (fct == NULL)
>>     /* We are cheating here.  The gethostbyname2_r
>>        function does not have the same interface as
>>        gethostbyname3_r but the extra arguments the
>>        latter takes are added at the end.  So the
>>        gethostbyname2_r code will just ignore them.  */
>>     fct = __nss_lookup_function (nip, "gethostbyname2_r");
> 
> ... they aren't inherently bugs if all supported
> ABIs have the required property.

The only ABI I can think of that doesn't have this property is Windows
__stdcall.  Which obviously isn't used in any glibc configuration.


r~

      reply	other threads:[~2016-03-29 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-22  9:20 Florian Weimer
2016-03-22 19:14 ` Joseph Myers
2016-03-22 20:25   ` Florian Weimer
2016-03-22 21:33     ` Joseph Myers
2016-03-29 21:27       ` Richard Henderson [this message]

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