From: Visweswara R <r.visweswara@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 02:02:08 +0000 (+0530)
Subject: net: improve IPMask docs
X-Git-Tag: go1.14beta1~298
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cb47edc0c404aa6944976b27406bd927f8836f07;p=gostls13.git

net: improve IPMask docs

Fixes #28957

Change-Id: Ie8ba841bd4ee71766bcfbbfbdc9173b9be867ed1
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/151479
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
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diff --git a/src/net/ip.go b/src/net/ip.go
index a80851803d..407337d9b3 100644
--- a/src/net/ip.go
+++ b/src/net/ip.go
@@ -31,7 +31,10 @@ const (
 // be an IPv4 address.
 type IP []byte
 
-// An IP mask is an IP address.
+// An IPMask is a bitmask that can be used to manipulate
+// IP addresses for IP addressing and routing.
+//
+// See type IPNet and func ParseCIDR for details.
 type IPMask []byte
 
 // An IPNet represents an IP network.