Re: [boost] [asio] some stuff about ipv4::address

From: Pedro Lamarão (pedro.lamarao_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-06 10:28:19

Chris Cleeland wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Pedro Lamarão wrote:
> 
> 
>>Yuval Ronen wrote:
>>
>>[SNIP]
>>
>>
>>>And one last suggestion: A construtor taking 4 unsigned chars, allowing 
>>>this:
>>>asio::ipv4::address my_address(192, 168, 0, 1);
>>
>>I suppose you meant four unsigned shorts?
> 
> 
> An IPv4 address is comprised of four octets, and an unsigned char 
> sufficiently represents an octet.  A short would be overkill, no?

I see, you meant an implicit conversion to char?
I still fail to see a use case for this.
Help me here. :)

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