Sylvain,

What you said about the packed structures makes sense. Thanks again.

- Andrew Westberg


On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Sylvain Rochet <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello Andrew,
>
>
> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 07:36:06AM -0400, Andrew Westberg wrote:
> > It's been running for over 15 hours on ppp_new without issue. I'd say the
> > issue is solved.
>
> Yeah!, happy to hear that.
>
>
> > There may still be a bug in ppp.c with these two lines around 1762 if the
> > platform isn't/can't support packed structs.
> >
> >               *(payload++) = pcrx->in_protocol >> 8;
> >               *(payload) = pcrx->in_protocol & 0xFF;
> >
> > In the old ppp, these fields are set by fields after first casting to a
> > header struct so packed or not makes no difference.
>
> I have to disagree. byte access is the only way to escape from alignment
> issues, this is what your compiler do for packed struct if your target
> does not support unaligned access for short and long.
>
> This is why all structures that are going to be used in buffers are
> packed in lwIP, because the structure might be set to an unaligned
> address in the buffer.
>
> Anyway, lwIP is not designed to work with compilers that does not
> support packed structures.
>
>
> > Thanks for all your help!
>
> You're welcome :)
>
>
> Sylvain
>
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