Re: <netdb.h> in nsock/src/

[Henri Doreau <henri.doreau () gmail com>]

2013/5/1 Gisle Vanem <gvanem () broadpark no>:
> "Henri Doreau" <henri.doreau () gmail com> wrote:
> > Waw, that terribly sucks! C99 designated initializers are neither new
> > nor GNU-specific... I didn't find anything on the web about proper C99
> > support by MSVC. Do you confirm?
>
> My MSVC doesn't support C99 AFAICS. But is that important? What
> other C99 features is required for nmap? The VC (v.16) as part of VC-Express
> 2010 is the last free compiler to run on Win-XP. The free VC-Express 2012
> requires Win-7. So should Win-XP users be excluded from compiling nmap?
Sure not, don't get me wrong: I was just wondering if enabling a
switch or something in the MSVC project file could have let us use
these nice initializers. It looks like it's not the case so I'll
remove them.

> > Yes, nbase is probably the place where to put this. Though I don't get
> > what's the problem with MingW users? How does compilation work for
> > them? Which symbols do they have access to? I'm a bit reluctant to add
> > a function that's already available everywhere (under different
> > names).
> strtok_r() nor strtok_s() are available on MingW. strtok_s() is for
> MSVC (via <strsafe.h>). There is no reentrant strtok in standard MingW.
I see, thanks for the explanations. Then providing our own strtok_r on
platforms which don't have it sounds reasonable.

> --gv

Regards

--
Henri
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