Date: 01 Aug 2001 14:20:39 -0400 From: Sudish Joseph <sudish@corp.earthlink.net> To: Thomas Pornin <Thomas.Pornin@ens.fr> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPPoE + Alpha + 32/64 bits Message-ID: <yvia66c73amg.fsf@ra.eng.mindspring.net> In-Reply-To: <yviahevr3b4v.fsf@ra.eng.mindspring.net> (Sudish Joseph's message of "01 Aug 2001 14:09:36 -0400") References: <20010801173624.A13674@bolet.ens.fr> <yviahevr3b4v.fsf@ra.eng.mindspring.net>
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Sudish Joseph writes: > The PR also contains the (gross, alpha-specific) hack I use right now > to work around this issue. It simply masks out the upper 32 bits in > the pointer when making the comparison. Obviously not a real > solution, however it suffices for now since all of the pointers being > compared are in the same 32-bit segment. BTW, if you put in the workaround from kern/27767 for this, you'll run into the problem detailed in PR alpha/27766, where pppd core dumps on certain dns lookups. The patch in that PR was committed and MFC'ed to 4.3-STABLE, but after 4.3 was released, iirc. You might need to cvsup and rebuild world. -- Sudish Joseph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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