intToMask only allows creating masks starting from MSB, since the IP types don't have a bits instance it's not possible to create a hostmask (starting from LSB) from such a mask.
See the doctests in the patch for examples.
Note: I only tested this on x86. I'm assuming the internal types always have host byte order if that's not true big endian platforms would probably break.
kazu-yamamoto
commented
9 years ago
intToMaskonly allows creating masks starting from MSB, since the IP types don't have a bits instance it's not possible to create a hostmask (starting from LSB) from such a mask.See the doctests in the patch for examples.
Note: I only tested this on x86. I'm assuming the internal types always have host byte order if that's not true big endian platforms would probably break.