IPv6 support [VM]

> On 14 Feb 2017, at 13:20, Peter Uhnak <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> does anyone know what is the state of Pharo's IPv6 support?
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> I've found some discussion from 2009/2010 talking about it and making changes to the VM, but it seems incomplete.
>
> Creating IPv6 socket seems to be supported on the VM side (and I had no failure when I modified the netType from 0 to 3 in Socket>>initialize:)
>
> https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/blob/master/opensmalltalk-vm/platforms/unix/plugins/SocketPlugin/sqUnixSocket.c#L521
> https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/blob/master/opensmalltalk-vm/platforms/win32/plugins/SocketPlugin/sqWin32NewNet.c#L1325
>
> However creating connection fails I guess here
> https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/blob/master/opensmalltalk-vm/src/plugins/SocketPlugin/SocketPlugin.c#L1151
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> And even if it didn't fail there, sqSocketConnectToPort accepts address in sqInt (4 bytes), and sets the type to AF_INET
> https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/blob/master/opensmalltalk-vm/platforms/unix/plugins/SocketPlugin/sqUnixSocket.c#L736
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> Was the effort abandoned? Am I doing something wrong and it actually should work?
>
>
> Also NetNameResolver in Pharo is IPv4 only, but that's not an issue here.
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>