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Closed (moved) Eliminate "family" field in tor_addr_t
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  • Eliminate "family" field in tor_addr_t

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  • Closed (moved) Issue created by Nick Mathewson

    The tor_addr_t structure has a "family" member that stores AF_INET, AF_INET6, or AF_UNSPEC. So in theory we'd need only 3 bits for it... but in practice, it bumps up the size of the structure by 4-8 bytes, because of alignment issues.

    This excess space matters, because we allocate a whole lot of tor_addr_ts. For example, we allocate one for every exit policy entry.

    We can save space here by using the "v4-mapped address" trick of RFC4291, and using ::ffff:1.2.3.4 as the representation of 1.2.3.4. For AF_UNSPEC, we can just choose a sentinel value.

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