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From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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Subject: Re: c++ error
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On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 05:36:05PM -0700, John Polstra wrote:
> About the best fix I can think of (and it's not very good) is to
> change <netinet/in.h> so the structure is declared like this:
> 
> struct ip_opts {
> 	struct	in_addr ip_dst;		/* first hop, 0 w/o src rt */
> #ifdef __cplusplus
> 	char	ip_optbuf[40];		/* actually variable in size */
> #else
> 	char	ip_opts[40];		/* actually variable in size */
> #endif
> };
> 
> This shouldn't break any C++ code, since it already wouldn't compile
> anyway. :-)

Please see PR bin/13383 before doing anything like this.  It addresses
a similar situation.  I'll comment more tomorrow after some sleep :-)

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Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org


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