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Transmute big endian `s6_addr` and `[u16; 8]` #75085

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bors merged 1 commit into rust-lang:master from tesuji:ip_union

Aug 11, 2020

Commits on Aug 10, 2020

Transmute between big endian s6_addr and [u16; 8].

The old code already made the assumption to reinterpret
`Ipv6Addr` as `[u16; 8]`.

Glibc, Linux, FreeBSD, Win32 all makes this assumption.
The main motivation of using union it to better optimize code.

ref:
* https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/in6addr/ns-in6addr-in6_addr
* https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/1d6e4247415d264485ee94b59fdbc12e0c566fd0/contrib/ntp/lib/isc/include/isc/ipv6.h#L63
* https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/blob/8b531aa996bba254c03129658490af59597acd78/include/net/net_ip.h#L137
* https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=inet/netinet/in.h;h=f6355c7efe5192b88337b136ef687fe9a5ed648c;hb=HEAD#l216

Co-authored-by: Josh Stone <cuviper@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Peter Atashian <retep998@gmail.com>

3 people committed Aug 10, 2020