/* This struct defines an IP address, tagged with family type. */
typedef struct {
- /* Address type. */
- enum {
- IPV4_ADDRESS
-#ifdef ENABLE_IPV6
- , IPV6_ADDRESS
-#endif /* ENABLE_IPV6 */
- } type;
+ /* Address family, one of AF_INET or AF_INET6. */
+ int family;
- /* Address data union: ipv6 contains IPv6-related data (address and
- scope), and ipv4 contains the IPv4 address. */
+ /* The actual data, in the form of struct in_addr or in6_addr: */
union {
+ struct in_addr d4; /* IPv4 address */
#ifdef ENABLE_IPV6
- struct {
- struct in6_addr addr;
-# ifdef HAVE_SOCKADDR_IN6_SCOPE_ID
- unsigned int scope_id;
-# endif
- } ipv6;
-#endif /* ENABLE_IPV6 */
- struct {
- struct in_addr addr;
- } ipv4;
- } u;
-} ip_address;
-
-/* Because C doesn't support anonymous unions, access to ip_address
- elements is unwieldy. Hence the accessors.
-
- The _ADDR accessors return the address as the struct in_addr or
- in6_addr. The _DATA accessor returns a pointer to the address data
- -- pretty much the same as the above, but cast to void*. The
- _SCOPE accessor returns the address's scope_id, and makes sense
- only when IPv6 and HAVE_SOCKADDR_IN6_SCOPE_ID are both defined. */
+ struct in6_addr d6; /* IPv6 address */
+#endif
+ } data;
-#define ADDRESS_IPV4_IN_ADDR(x) ((x)->u.ipv4.addr)
-/* Don't use &x->u.ipv4.addr.s_addr because it can be #defined to a
- bitfield, which you can't take an address of. */
-#define ADDRESS_IPV4_DATA(x) ((void *)&(x)->u.ipv4.addr)
+ /* Under IPv6 getaddrinfo also returns scope_id. Since it's
+ IPv6-specific it strictly belongs in the above union, but we put
+ it here for simplicity. */
+#if defined ENABLE_IPV6 && defined HAVE_SOCKADDR_IN6_SCOPE_ID
+ int ipv6_scope;
+#endif
+} ip_address;
-#define ADDRESS_IPV6_IN6_ADDR(x) ((x)->u.ipv6.addr)
-#define ADDRESS_IPV6_DATA(x) ((void *)&(x)->u.ipv6.addr)
-#define ADDRESS_IPV6_SCOPE(x) ((x)->u.ipv6.scope_id)
+/* IP_INADDR_DATA macro returns a void pointer that can be interpreted
+ as a pointer to struct in_addr in IPv4 context or a pointer to
+ struct in6_addr in IPv4 context. This pointer can be passed to
+ functions that work on either, such as inet_ntop. */
+#define IP_INADDR_DATA(x) ((void *) &(x)->data)
enum {
LH_SILENT = 1,