[vlc-commits] configure: socklen_t should be unsigned

Rémi Denis-Courmont git at videolan.org
Sun Apr 14 09:05:34 CEST 2019


vlc | branch: master | Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> | Sun Apr 14 09:47:40 2019 +0300| [dec2195d99c3d8f935a3d0b52ea701e8faf5150c] | committer: Rémi Denis-Courmont

configure: socklen_t should be unsigned

Originally, POSIX made it unsigned. This was relaxed in newer releases,
but unsigned makes more sense anyway since it expressses a size.

> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?a=commit;h=dec2195d99c3d8f935a3d0b52ea701e8faf5150c
---

 configure.ac | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 845f0ab283..85f2916f05 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ ac_cv_type_socklen_t,
 ac_cv_type_socklen_t=yes,
 ac_cv_type_socklen_t=no)])
 AS_IF([test "$ac_cv_type_socklen_t" = no],
- [AC_DEFINE(socklen_t, int)])
+ [AC_DEFINE(socklen_t, unsigned int)])
 
 dnl Check for struct sockaddr_storage
 AH_TEMPLATE(sockaddr_storage, [Define to `sockaddr' if <sys/socket.h> does not define.]) dnl ` (fix VIM syntax highlight



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