Jambo skunks!

Is there any clear cut advantage in using "inet_pton()" over assigning an IP address to "sockaddr_in.sin_addr.s_addr"

Yaani:-

inet_pton(AF_INET,host.c_str(),&m_addr.sin_addr); VS. sockaddr_in.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr(host.c_str());

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