Can someone please explain me what does (struct sockaddr*)&serv eraddr means in the CONNECT system call. Reading this kind of syntax for the first time. Thanks.
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"(struct sockaddr*)&serv eraddr"
Explicit type casting is done here. serveraddr is an object of structure sockaddr_in, but my guess is that the second actual parameter of connect() requires an address of type sockaddr and holds the address in a sockaddr type pointer (via formal arguments).
This is similar to what is done with primitive data types like int, float etc. And structure is also a data type (derived one). For example, while dynamically allocating memory,
malloc() returns a void* type value, that's why explicit type conversion is done to convert it to int* type and then assign it to an int type pointer. However, in this particular case it is unnecessary since void* is automatically promoted to any other pointer type.Code:int *ptr = (int *) malloc(sizeof(int) * length);
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