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Re: glibc: inet6_rth_init returned an abnormal address?
- From: wangyufen <wangyufen at huawei dot com>
- To: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:12:44 +0800
- Subject: Re: glibc: inet6_rth_init returned an abnormal address?
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- References: <5489640C dot 2050400 at huawei dot com> <20141211104142 dot GA10717 at domone>
On 2014/12/11 18:41, OndÅej BÃlka wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 05:29:48PM +0800, wangyufen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I did some test on inet6_rth_init, inet6_rth_init returnned a invalid address;
>> But I used inet6_rth_init_ww (the same implementation as inet6_rth_init) in my test code, It returnned a valid address.
>> Dose anyone konw why?
>>
> Because you used implicit prototype. Compiler then assumes that prototype is
>
> int inet6_rth_init (void *bp, socklen_t bp_len, int type, int segments)
>
> and then sign-extends result, creating invalid pointer.
>
>
Thanks for your reply, then in order to obtain a valid address, how to use inet6_rth_init?
thanks,
Wang