Gerard Beekmans wrote:
Gerard Beekmans wrote:
It's probably something elemental to seasoned programmers. Anybody
care to explain? :)
Ah found it. Apparently it's for historical reasons. The in_addr
structure used to be a union of various structures. Networking
changed, the union became unneeded and in_addr is left as a structure
with just that single in_addr_t member.
What's a union? :)
A union is basically the same as a structure. Same syntax, same method
of calling. I suppose you could call a union a subset of a structure. A
structure is more expandable/scalable though.
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