Hey, I kind of agree, which is why I solved essentially the same problem
wrt IP addresses with this "interesting" macro - check for the uses of
NIPQUAD() in the IPv4 networking code. Makes people avoid typing their
fingers to the bone, and in the case of networking it allowed us to have
different unpacking functions on different architectures..
Linus
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