Re: sigsegv in compiled cygwin

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 02:35:41PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 03:12:51AM +0900, jojelino wrote:
>>i found small piece of code that need some comment.
>>
>>from trunk
>>
>>       int (*wsastartup) (int, WSADATA *);
>>
>>       /* Don't use autoload to load WSAStartup to eliminate recursion. */
>>       wsastartup = (int (*)(int, WSADATA *))
>>		   GetProcAddress ((HMODULE) (dll->handle), "WSAStartup");
>>
>>would have meant
>>       typedef int __stdcall (*pfnwsastartup) (int, WSADATA *);
>>       pfnwsastartup wsastartup;
>>       wsastartup = (pfnwsastartup)
>>		   GetProcAddress ((HMODULE) (dll->handle), "WSAStartup");
>>
>>otherwise stack frame would be damaged.
>
>Why the typedef?

Ah, maybe just for consistency.

cgf

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple