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Author pitrou
Recipients baikie, brett.cannon, ncoghlan, neologix, pitrou, python-dev
Date 2011-09-01.12:07:48
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If you're casting to a larger signed type, then the semantics change, since there is a sign extension.
For example (unsigned int) 0xFFFFFFFF could be cast to (long long) -1.

You could cast to size_t instead and compare the result to SOCKLEN_T_MAX (which currently doesn't exist :-)).
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2011-09-01 12:07:49pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, brett.cannon, ncoghlan, baikie, neologix, python-dev
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