On Oct 14, 2012, at 10:50 AM, Martin Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote:
> as part of #7729, we have to parse a text string that contains an IPv6 > address and convert it into a sequence of bytes - and detect malformed > addresses. > > The current proposal does the parsing manually. I was wondering if we > could simplify things by using getaddrinfo(). You could probably simplify things even more by using inet_pton() (as Alexander Koeppe noted in the bug) rather than getaddrinfo(). We're already using inet_pton() (and supply our own version for platforms where it's unavailable), so we can use it elsewhere. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
