Comment 0 for bug 1016349

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Anders Kaseorg (andersk) wrote :

The definition of htons() on platforms other than i386 and amd64 is missing a cast to uint16_t, which caused this FTBFS of mosh on armel and armhf:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mosh/1.2.1-1ubuntu1/+build/3582950
network.cc:76:28: error: narrowing conversion of '({...})' from 'unsigned int' to 'uint16_t {aka short unsigned int}' inside { } is ill-formed in C++11 [-Werror=narrowing]
network.cc:76:50: error: narrowing conversion of '({...})' from 'unsigned int' to 'uint16_t {aka short unsigned int}' inside { } is ill-formed in C++11 [-Werror=narrowing]

(We didn’t see this before because this warning is new in GCC 4.7.)

This was fixed for glibc 2.16 in
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=2174c6dd8555f654c30df2f8f3321b69e0f736f8