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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: kern/27767: (was: PPPoE + Alpha + 32/64 bits) 
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On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Brian Somers wrote:

> > [bde wrote]
> > Here I don't see how packing the struct helps on alphas.  Doesn't it
> > cause traps by misaligning uniqtag.data.pointer?  I think you need
> > something like:
>
> It doesn't cause a trap as the compiler is (now) smart enough to
> handle it properly.  Note where we have the alignment problem here:

I guess it knows how to handle this in packed structs and not in many
other cases.

> >   	struct {
> > 		struct	pppoe_tag hdr;
> >  		char	data[sizeof(void *)];
> > 	} uniqtag;
> > 	void *pointer;
> > 	...
> > 	pointer = sp;
> > 	memcpy(uniqtag.data, &pointer, sizeof(uniqtag.data));
>
> That's probably better.  I went with the __attribute((packed)) stuff
> because it was already done that way in the rest of the code.

I think the packed attributes in ng_pppoe.h are no-ops on most machines.

> In this specific case however, it may be best to just send the variable
> plus the alignment padding as the tag:
>
>         struct {
>                 struct pppoe_tag hdr;
>                 union   uniq    data;
>         } uniqtag;
>
>         ......
>         uniqtag.hdr.tag_type = PTT_HOST_UNIQ;
>         uniqtag.hdr.tag_len = htons((u_int16_t)(sizeof(uniqtag) - sizeof(uniqtag.hdr));
>         uniqtag.data.pointer = sp;

You might also have to zero everything to ensure that there is no stack
garbage in the message.

Bruce


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