svn 14519

[Rob Landley]

On Monday 13 March 2006 9:18 am, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Sunday 12 March 2006 23:46, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Sunday 12 March 2006 10:34 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > On Sunday 12 March 2006 14:38, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > > Don't glibc versions-specific things belong in platform.h?  (And add
> > > > a comment about _why_, not just to the checkin but to the code.)
> > >
> > > these arent glibc-specific ... every libc that conforms to RFC 3542
> > > will prob have this "issue"
> >
> > Is this, or is this not, backwards compatability cruft dealing with a
> > libc versioning issue?
>
> it is backwards compatibility cruft dealing with RFC changes ... the libc
> is just where the defines happen to live
>
> RFC3542 obsoletes RFC2292 ... RFC2292 listed the ICMP6_* defines while
> RFC3542 changed to the MLD_* defines
>
> it didnt make much sense to me to move these defines to portability.h as
> they are only used in ping6.c

Could you add a comment about RFC3542 obsoleting RFC2292?

> -mike

Rob
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