Backwards compatibility at any cost?

Posted Nov 10, 2024 21:35 UTC (Sun) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: Backwards compatibility at any cost? by lunaryorn
Parent article: The trouble with struct sockaddr's fake flexible array

While the Berkeley socket API is in fact not that great by today's standard, it's also not interesting WRT this discussion because it does *not* have sockaddr structs embedded somewhere in the middle of other objects.