Re: socklen_t data type

> From: Keith Marshall <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 22:34:58 +0100
> 
> > This causes trouble when compiling a recent GDB: both Gnulib and
> > GDB's own sources assume that socklen_t is a signed int.  Moreover,
> > winsock functions like 'accept' and 'getsockname', expect an 'int *'
> > type of their last argument, and it is customary to pass a 
> > 'socklen_t *' value there.
> Ouch!  I'm guessing that the difference in "signedness" raises warnings,
> at best, and possibly even incompatible type conflict errors?

GDB is a C++ program these days, and is compiled with -fpermissive, so
this causes errors.

> so if it makes life easier, feel free to modify your local copy, and
> I'll revert that change for future releases.

Done; thanks.

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