On Oct 14, 2012, at 10:50 AM, Martin Kaiser <lists@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
