Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 11:31:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sizeof(struct ether_header) Message-ID: <200005021531.LAA73669@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200005012111.OAA94013@bubba.whistle.com> References: <200005012111.OAA94013@bubba.whistle.com>
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<<On Mon, 1 May 2000 14:11:35 -0700 (PDT), Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> said: > Isn't this bogus, as a structure may require longword padding on certain > architecures, so that sizeof(struct ether_header) would equal 16? The structure contains no object larger than a short, so it should never require such padding. If any architecture ever does, far more than this will break. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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