RFR: 8272215: Add InetAddress methods for parsing IP address literals

Mon Sep 18 17:00:41 UTC 2023

On Mon, 18 Sep 2023 14:14:57 GMT, Daniel Fuchs <dfuchs at openjdk.org> wrote:

>      *     Inet4Address.ofLiteral("06.07.08.09")        ==>    /6.7.8.9

if we ignore octal encoding, we should document it explicitely.

Maybe 

> The loose IPv4 syntax of partial numbers or hex encoding ("10.0.258", "0xA000102") is not supported and causes a parsing error. Octal (zero) prefixes are ignored, i.e. interpreted decimal.

(However I would prefer to reject octal in this case)

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15775#discussion_r1329036189