inet_ntoa bug under Irix n32

["Erik Hofman" <erik dot hofman at a1 dot nl>]

Dear Sir/Madam,

I've investigated a little in the anoying inet_ntoa bug under SGI Irix.
I've come up with the following solution;

You could include the inet_ntoa.c from the following URL:
http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/system/vax_bsd43/srvd/usr/sipb/src/xarchie-2.0
.10/inet_ntoa.c

a test program from egcs configureation file (as included) resulted in the
following line in the conftestval file:

Desk02 49# cat conftestval
1.2.3.4

It seems the bug has gone!
I hope you will include this "patch" in the upcomming releases.

With regards,

Erik Hofman
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#if defined(LIBC_SCCS) && !defined(lint)
static char sccsid[] = "@(#)inet_ntoa.c 5.6 (Berkeley) 2/24/91";
#endif /* LIBC_SCCS and not lint */

/*
 * Convert network-format internet address
 * to base 256 d.d.d.d representation.
 */
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

char *
inet_ntoa(in)
        struct in_addr in;
{
        static char b[18];
        register char *p;

        p = (char *)&in;
#define UC(b)   (((int)b)&0xff)
/* gf: Didn't want to use snprintf().
        (void)snprintf(b, sizeof(b),
            "%d.%d.%d.%d", UC(p[0]), UC(p[1]), UC(p[2]), UC(p[3]));
 */
        (void)sprintf(b,
            "%d.%d.%d.%d", UC(p[0]), UC(p[1]), UC(p[2]), UC(p[3]));
        return (b);
}

main ()
{
        struct in_addr in;
        in.s_addr = inet_addr("1.2.3.4");
        fprintf (fopen("conftestval", "w"), "%s\n", inet_ntoa(in));
        exit(0);

}