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> > Those values are NOT integers originally, they are octet arrays. > > What? > > The values are IPv4 addresses. There is _one_ standard way of printing > them, and that standard way is as four decimal numbers. EVERYBODY prints > them that way. It's the only sane way to show them. > > There is no question in my mind - printing out IPv4 addresses as hex > "integers" is wrong. It has always been wrong, and it's wrong now. It > happens to be very simple, which is the excuse for doing it, but it's > still wrong. Yet netmasks are bit-oriented, thus more intelligible as hex integers. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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