[PATCH v2 1/1] inet: add support for 64-bit network byte order

[Philip Prindeville]

> On Mar 11, 2025, at 12:20 PM, Joseph Myers <josmyers@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2025, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> 
>> As 32-bit machines become increasingly supplanted by 64-bit
>> architectures, network protocols likewise leverage those
>> larger word capabilities. A good example is POSIX supporting
>> 64-bit time_t's to avoid the 2038 problem, or timestamps that
>> include micro- or nanosecond precision.
> 
> I still think it's a bad idea to add such new interfaces that just 
> duplicate interfaces we already have under better names that are 
> standardized in POSIX.1-2024.
> 


Y’all know where I was going to go with this next, right?

Yup, standardized marshaling for float and double…