struct hostent (under both windows and nodes) that are used, for example, with gethostbyname () et al. stores point addresses using a pointer to a signed char .
What is the use of this when he knows in advance that the addresses can and generally contain numbers> 127, and that they are ultimately represented without an sign? Is there any benefit from the possibility of recognition, any kind of edge case? Or is it just historical baggage?
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