AW: compilation problem on AIX

> Does somebody have solution for this problem that was discussed here a month ago?
>
> >>
> >> the stream functions on AIX need a size_t for addrlen's in fe-connect.c and pqcomm.c.
> >>This has come up before.  AIX wants size_t for certain structures like
> >getsockname().  I believe the third parameter on AIX is size_t, while it
> >used to be int on my machine, but is not socklen_t.  Is this correct?
> >The 'int' code works fine for me, but I can see why AIX is having a
> >problem, and perhaps it is time for configure to check on the various
> >types.
> >
> >    getsockname(int s, struct sockaddr *name, socklen_t *namelen);
>
> Ok, so this gets tricky. In 4.2.1 it is size_t and in 4.3.1 it is as above with socklen_t :-(

I would simply do:

#ifndef size_t
typedef int size_t
#endif

#ifndef socklen_t
typedef size_t socklen_t
#endif

and use socklen_t which is now standard for socket functions

Andreas

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