...one of the most highly
regarded and expertly designed C++ library projects in the
world.
— Herb Sutter and Andrei
Alexandrescu, C++
Coding Standards
Determine whether the address is a loopback address.
bool is_loopback() const;
This function tests whether the address is in the address block 127.0.0.0/8
, which
corresponds to the address range 127.0.0.0 -
127.255.255.255
.
(to_uint() & 0xFF000000) == 0x7F000000
.