* parse IPv4 dotted-decimal correctly (without strtoul, no leading zeros)
* disallow single leading ':' in IPv6 address
* allow at most 4 hex digits in IPv6 address (according to RFC 2373)
* have enough hex fields in IPv4 mapped IPv6 address
* disallow leading zeros in IPv4 mapped IPv6 address
to deal with the fact that the public headers may be used with pre-c99
compilers, __restrict is used in place of restrict, and defined
appropriately for any supported compiler. we also avoid the form
[restrict] since older versions of gcc rejected it due to a bug in the
original c99 standard, and instead use the form *restrict.