Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> 
> > Well, under bsdi, irix, and linux you can use INADDR_NONE.  Under solaris
> > the man page even says the functions (inet_addr, inet_network) return -1
> > on error (despite returning unsigned long).  Casting -1 to an unsigned
> > long should work on any compiler pretending to be ansi, as should using
> > the constant ~0ul.
> 
> I like ~0ul -- it matches what I'd expect.  I'll commit that.

I don't like that. If the manual says it returns -1 and the type is an
unsigned long, then the correct construction is surely:

(unsigned long)-1

~0ul may happen to be the same, but that ain't what the manual says.

Cheers,

Ben.

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