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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 5160] Wireshark fails to start on Windows XP 64bit

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:16:04 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5160

--- Comment #22 from Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> 2010-09-15 08:15:56 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #20)
> BTW, the technique to substitute lacking system support with functions with the
> same name will always be fragile. Better is to use the scheme:
> 
> In libwsutil, implement a function called ws_inet_pton(), and then, in
> config.h:
> 
> #ifdef WS_LACKS_INET_PTON
> #define inet_pton ws_inet_pton
> #endif

True.  I checked in a change in rev 34122 to do that (after backing out the
previous changes).  If someone can please test an automated build with that rev
or later (available in a couple of hours), I'd appreciate it.

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