netstack: make tcpip.Address an opaque type #8868
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netstack: make tcpip.Address an opaque type
The important change here is in tcpip/tcpip.go, where tcpip.Address is defined.
The rest is updating uses of tcpip.Address.
This is preparation for netip.Addr or []byte based addresses, which should save
us a bunch of allocations. Currently, we allocate every time we want to, say,
get a tcpip.Address from a header. This is because the header is a byte slice,
but Address is a string. Strings are immutable, so Go allocates and copies.