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Rollup merge of rust-lang#130629 - Dirbaio:net-from-octets, r=tgross35
core/net: add Ipv[46]Addr::from_octets, Ipv6Addr::from_segments.
Adds:
- `Ipv4Address::from_octets([u8;4])`
- `Ipv6Address::from_octets([u8;16])`
- `Ipv6Address::from_segments([u16;8])`
equivalent to the existing `From` impls.
Advantages:
- Consistent with `to_bits, from_bits`.
- More discoverable than the `From` impls.
- Helps with type inference: it's common to want to convert byte slices to IP addrs. If you try this
```rust
fn foo(x: &[u8]) -> Ipv4Addr {
Ipv4Addr::from(foo.try_into().unwrap())
}
```
it [doesn't work](https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2021&gist=0e2873312de275a58fa6e33d1b213bec). You have to write `Ipv4Addr::from(<[u8;4]>::try_from(x).unwrap())` instead, which is not great. With `from_octets` it is able to infer the right types.
Found this while porting [smoltcp](https://github.com/smoltcp-rs/smoltcp/) from its own IP address types to the `core::net` types.
~~Tracking issues rust-lang#27709rust-lang#76205~~
Tracking issue: rust-lang#131360
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