to become properly 8-byte aligned on 64-bit archs. Philip Gladstone reported.
#ifdef HAVE_INET_NTOA_R
char ntoa_buf[64];
#endif
- char hostent_buf[9000];
+ /* The array size trick below is to make this a large chunk of memory
+ suitably 8-byte aligned on 64-bit platforms. This was thoughtfully
+ suggested by Philip Gladstone. */
+ long bigbuf[9000 / sizeof(long)];
#if defined(HAVE_INET_ADDR)
in_addr_t address;
# if defined(HAVE_GETHOSTBYADDR_R)
int h_errnop;
# endif
+ char *hostent_buf = (char *)bigbuf; /* get a char * to the buffer */
address = inet_addr(newhost);
# ifdef HAVE_GETHOSTBYADDR_R