Hiya guys,
Been doing some network socket programming and came across something I
can't quite figure out.
We have a sockaddr_in struct that has the following members:
uint8_t sin_len
sa_family_t sin_family
in_port_t sin_port
struct in_addr sin_addr
char sin_zero
Question I have: why is in_addr a struct onto itself? The in_addr struct
only has one members as far as I can tell:
in_addr_t s_addr
Why couldn't the sockaddr_in struct contain a member def. like this:
in_addr_t sin_addr
If in_addr had more than one member I could understand it. But since it
only has one, it doesn't make much sense to me.
It's probably something elemental to seasoned programmers. Anybody care
to explain? :)
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