[fpc-pascal]SetSocketOptions() in Linux

[Karagiannidis Savvas]

> G'day all,
>
> This has been a problem for me for a couple of years and I have only
> just solved it. (It was not a high priority).
>
> S is a Socket.
> I wanted to
> SetSocketOptions(S,SOL_SOCKET,SO_REUSEADDR,1,Sizeof(1));
>
> I looked at heaps of C source, and they did it with an int
> variable. So I used
>
> Var
> Temp : Integer;
>
> Temp := 1;
> SetSocketOptions(S,SOL_SOCKET,SO_REUSEADDR,Temp,Sizeof(Temp));
>
> This never worked, but it turns out that
>
> Const
> Temp = 1;
> SetSocketOptions(S,SOL_SOCKET,SO_REUSEADDR,Temp,Sizeof(Temp));
>
> Or
>
> SetSocketOptions(S,SOL_SOCKET,SO_REUSEADDR,1,Sizeof(1));
>
> Both work fine.
> Why does the first one fail and both the second ones work.
> What am I missing.
>
> I have solved the problem and I'm much happier for it, but I'd like
> to know what basic concept I'm not grasping.
>
>
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I have used SetSocketOptions the first way (using an integer variable) and
it works fine for me...

Savvas