getdomainname prototype definition in admin/acinclude.m4.in

[Benjamin Reed]

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Thiago Macieira wrote:

> revision 2.371 of admin/acinclude.m4.in changed the definition of the 
> getdomainname prototype:
> -               [int getdomainname (char *, int)],
> +               [int getdomainname (char *, size_t)],
> 
> I've done some searching on the Internet and it seems to me that only Linux 
> uses size_t (which is unsigned) as the second parameter. Every other system I 
> found seemed to use int (Google searches for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, HP-UX 
> and AIX).
> 
> While there isn't much of a problem considering this is a C function, the 
> problem arises when #include <config.h> is the first include in a file -- 
> which is the recommended behaviour according to autoconf. When that happens, 
> the compiler chokes due to the fact that size_t is an undefined type: neither 
> stddef.h nor sys/types.h has been included yet.
> 
> So, as far as I can see, there are two solutions:
> 1) revert the prototype back to int
> 2) #include <stddef.h> inside config.h
> 
> Any thoughts?

MacOSX uses size_t as well (which on OSX is unsized int I believe). 
Sounds like the test needs to be changed to something that understands 
either...  :(

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