Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net/socket: Fix compiler warning (regression for MinGW)

[Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>]

Am 22.09.2012 20:01, schrieb Michael Tokarev:
> On 22.09.2012 20:32, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 09:32:19PM +0200, Stefan Weil wrote:
>>> Add a type cast which was removed by commit
>>> 213fd5087e2e4e2da10ad266df0ba950cf7618bf again.
>>>
>>> Without it, MinGW compilers complain:
>>>
>>> net/socket.c:136: warning:
>>>   pointer targets in passing argument 2 of ‘sendto’ differ in signedness
>>> /usr/lib/gcc/amd64-mingw32msvc/4.4.4/../../../../amd64-mingw32msvc/include/winsock2.h:1313: note:
>>>   expected ‘const char *’ but argument is of type ‘const uint8_t *’
>> Wow, that's messed up.  sendto() is POSIX and the prototype shouldn't be
>> const char *.
>>
>> It's easy for someone to remove this cast in the future.  Please add a
>> comment explaining that it's needed because MinGW headers don't have the
>> POSIX version of sendto().
> There's qemu_recv() in qemu-common.h, for exactly the same purpose.
> But qemu_recv() is much more evil, IMHO.
>
> Thanks,
>
> /mjt

Thanks for the hint.

I already sent v2 of my patch (with a comment as suggested by Stefan H.).

Of course we could also add a qemu_sendto to qemu-common.h.
Is there anybody who would prefer that solution?

Regards
Stefan W.