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Re: [Bug-gnulib] xinet
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [Bug-gnulib] xinet |
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Sat, 18 Sep 2004 21:26:01 -0700 |
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I dunno, that one looks fairly specialized. It allocates
constant-sized and small objects, which is often easier and more
efficient to allocate in the stack frame of the caller. Also,
inet_ntoa is obsolescent, as it can't handle IPv6 addresses.
If we're going to all that work, wouldn't it be better to build a
wrapper around inet_ntop instead? It is more future-proof, and it has
the varying-size buffer problem that needs a wrapper more.