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replace gai_strerror on mingw?


From: Eric Blake
Subject: replace gai_strerror on mingw?
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:43:40 -0600
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On mingw, gai_strerror has two different return types, depending on
whether UNICODE was defined at the time the header was included.  Both
types (char* and WCHAR*) are incompatible with the POSIX return type of
const char*.  Furthermore, a WCHAR* return renders the return string
worthless for an application that is not expecting unicode (you'd get
one byte).  It doesn't help that on mingw, gai_strerror is declared as
an inline function in the header, rather than declared as a function
with external linkage.

Should we always be replacing gai_strerror on mingw, and having the
replacement call gai_strerrorA to guarantee ASCII results and the right
return type?

Noticed by Matthias Bolte as a build warning of libvirt on mingw:

test-getaddrinfo.c:28:1: warning: initialization from incompatible
pointer type

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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