Patches for structure packing....

Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com
Wed Apr 14 13:18:00 GMT 1999


Scott Bambrough <scottb@corelcomputer.com> writes:

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> The following patches force structures to be packed on the ARM.  The structures
> ether_addr and ether_header in ethernet.h must be packed in order for tcpdump to
> function correctly.  Actually tcpdump has its own version of these structures
> but the principle is the same.  Similarly the structure tftphdr must be packed
> or tftp and tftpd will not function correctly.
> 
> The map structure in ksc5601 has a comment that states it should be packed in
> all architechures.  This is definitely not the case on the ARM.

I'll have to examine whether we need ARM specific headers.

Thanks,

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