Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 08:30:31 +0200 From: Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: CMSG_DATA and ALIGN macro Message-ID: <200005110630.IAA10990@bowtie.nl>
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Hi,
I tried sending this to freebsd-doc, but perhaps this place is better
suited.
The problem is that the ALIGN macro is not being
picked up even though <sys/types.h> and <sys/socket.h> are included.
The problem arises from the use of the CMSG_DATA macro, which seems to
be related to sendmsg(), and uses the ALIGN macro.
The manual page for sendmsg() or similar states that you only need
<sys/types.h> and <sys/socket.h>, but this fails, it only works if
you also include <machine/param.h> where the ALIGN macro is defined.
So the question is: is the manual page in error or are the
include files wrong? If it's the manual page, in which manual
page are you supposed to find information about the use of the
CMSG_DATA macro? Otherwise I suppose the <sys/socket.h> include file
should include <sys/param.h>?
See the example program, it doesn't compile without the
<machine/param.h> include.
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <machine/param.h>
int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
struct msghdr msg;
unsigned char *data;
data = CMSG_DATA(&msg);
return(0);
}
Marc.
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