fakespike 0 Junior Poster in Training

i found the code to read local ip but i was wondering could it be any smaller then this.

#include <winsock.h>
#include <wsipx.h>
#include <wsnwlink.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
   ////////////////
   // Initialize windows sockets API.
   //
   WORD wVersionRequested = MAKEWORD(1, 1);
   WSADATA wsaData;
   if (WSAStartup(wVersionRequested, &wsaData)) {
      printf("WSAStartup failed %s\n", WSAGetLastError());
      return -1;
   }

   //////////////////
   // Get host name.
   //
   char hostname[256];
   int res = gethostname(hostname, sizeof(hostname));
   if (res != 0) {
      printf("Error: %u\n", WSAGetLastError());
      return -1;
   }
   printf("hostname=%s\n", hostname);

   ////////////////
   // Get host info for hostname. 
   //
   hostent* pHostent = gethostbyname(hostname);
   if (pHostent==NULL) {
      printf("Error: %u\n", WSAGetLastError());
      return -1;
   }

   //////////////////
   // Parse the hostent information returned
   //
   hostent& he = *pHostent;
   printf("name=%s\naliases=%s\naddrtype=%d\nlength=%d\n",
      he.h_name, he.h_aliases, he.h_addrtype, he.h_length);

   sockaddr_in sa;
   for (int nAdapter=0; he.h_addr_list[nAdapter]; nAdapter++) {
      memcpy ( &sa.sin_addr.s_addr, he.h_addr_list[nAdapter],he.h_length);
      // Output the machines IP Address.
      printf("Address: %s\n", inet_ntoa(sa.sin_addr)); // display as string
   }

   //////////////////
   // Terminate windows sockets API
   //
   WSACleanup();

   return 0;
}
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