Re: [OFFTOPIC?] Re: 2.2.x kernels missend odd-sized ICMP packets

Lars Heete (hel@admin.de)
Mon, 12 Apr 1999 07:21:16 +0200


Hello,

There is a bug in egcs (including 1.1.2), which is triggered on
little-endian targets with constructs like

short var = 0;
*((char *) &var) = value;

if var is stored in a register and optimization is enabled. Then not only the
lowpart of this register is changed, but the whole register.

The problem is fixed in recent snapshots of egcs.

A workaround for the checksum problem could be

if (nleft == 1) {
#if __BYTE_ORDER == __LITTLE_ENDIAN
sum += *(u_char *)w;
#else
*(u_char *)(&answer) = *(u_char *)w ;
sum += answer;
#endif
}

Lars

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