gcc 4.6 warning report

[Juan Lang]

>> This is a false positive.  h_addr_list is declared as a char **, and
>> technically it is, but gethostbyname only returns IPv4 addresses, i.e.
>> ones that can fit in a DWORD.
>
> That doesn't sound like a problem that would give that warning.

Why not?  A cast of a pointer to a DWORD with 64-bit pointers would
cause truncation, if it were indeed a pointer that were being cast.
It isn't, even though it's declared that way.
--Juan