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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2011 Nicira Networks.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#ifndef __CHECKER__
+#error "Use this header only with sparse. It is not a correct implementation."
+#endif
+
+#ifndef __NETINET_IN_SPARSE
+#define __NETINET_IN_SPARSE 1
+
+#include "openvswitch/types.h"
+#include <inttypes.h>
+#include <sys/socket.h>
+
+typedef ovs_be16 in_port_t;
+typedef ovs_be32 in_addr_t;
+
+struct in_addr {
+ in_addr_t s_addr;
+};
+
+struct sockaddr_in {
+ sa_family_t sin_family;
+ in_port_t sin_port;
+ struct in_addr sin_addr;
+};
+
+struct in6_addr {
+ union {
+ uint8_t u_s6_addr[16];
+ } u;
+};
+
+#define s6_addr u.u_s6_addr
+
+extern const struct in6_addr in6addr_any;
+
+#define IPPROTO_IP 0
+#define IPPROTO_HOPOPTS 0
+#define IPPROTO_ICMP 1
+#define IPPROTO_TCP 6
+#define IPPROTO_UDP 17
+#define IPPROTO_ROUTING 43
+#define IPPROTO_FRAGMENT 44
+#define IPPROTO_AH 51
+#define IPPROTO_ICMPV6 58
+#define IPPROTO_NONE 59
+#define IPPROTO_DSTOPTS 60
+
+#define INADDR_ANY 0x00000000
+#define INADDR_BROADCAST 0xffffffff
+#define INADDR_NONE 0xffffffff
+
+#define INET6_ADDRSTRLEN 46
+
+static inline ovs_be32 htonl(uint32_t x)
+{
+ return (OVS_FORCE ovs_be32) x;
+}
+
+static inline ovs_be16 htons(uint16_t x)
+{
+ return (OVS_FORCE ovs_be16) x;
+}
+
+static inline uint32_t ntohl(ovs_be32 x)
+{
+ return (OVS_FORCE uint32_t) x;
+}
+
+static inline uint16_t ntohs(ovs_be16 x)
+{
+ return (OVS_FORCE uint16_t) x;
+}
+
+in_addr_t inet_addr(const char *);
+int inet_aton (const char *, struct in_addr *);
+char *inet_ntoa(struct in_addr);
+const char *inet_ntop(int, const void *, char *, socklen_t);
+int inet_pton(int, const char *, void *);
+
+#endif /* <netinet/in.h> sparse */