[fpc-pascal] Bugs in StrToHostAddr6 in sockets unit
Noel Duffy
noelduffy at xtra.co.nz
Thu May 7 11:29:13 CEST 2020
On 7/05/20 9:17 pm, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>
> On Thu, 7 May 2020, Noel Duffy via fpc-pascal wrote:
>
>> Great. My worry was that the sockets unit might fall into the same
>> category as the libc one, available but deprecated and not recommended
>> for use. Plus, when rewriting something that's been unchanged for
>> years, there's a risk of breaking programs that depend on the bug.
>
> I think the processing of wrong IP addresses and missing IPv4-ending
> addresses support is not really something one depends on :)
> So fixing this is quite OK.
Heh! Guess I really am the only one who implements RFCs in Object Pascal
in his spare time. Maybe I should have learned to play golf :D
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