[U-Boot] IP_t should be a "packed" struct

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Jan 28 23:21:19 CET 2009


Dear Ben,

In message <4980D38F.4020100 at gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> > Here is for example a copy of /usr/include/netinet/ip.h :
...
> > struct iphdr
...
> Yeah, I made the same observation, but am not fluent enough in the black 
> magic of Linux header files to know if packing was being enforced 
> somewhere else or in some other way that my little brain can't comprehend.

Note that this was standard <netinet/ip.h>, i.  e.  no  Linux  kernel
header  file,  but  a standard user land header. Any application code
using network functions would break if this was a real problem.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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