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Re: egcs/linux networking problem isolated
- To: Alan Modra <alan at spri dot levels dot unisa dot edu dot au>
- Subject: Re: egcs/linux networking problem isolated
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at upchuck dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 15:01:53 -0600
- cc: egcs-bugs at egcs dot cygnus dot com, linux-kernel at vger dot rutgers dot edu
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.9904140016500.23419-100000@mullet.itr.unisa.edu.au>
you write:
> I bootstrapped egcs-2.93.17 the other evening and tried compiling
> linux-2.2.5 for i586. It was rather disconcerting to find networking
> completely broken; even "ping localhost" failed... Scanned the egcs-bugs
> archive to find this is a known problem with recent snapshots, but not
> resolved yet.
>
> Anyway, to cut a long story short, after much recompiling with gcc-2.7.2
> and egcs, I narrowed the problem down to a memcpy in
> linux/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
Err, I fixed this back in late March. At least a bug that sounds so similar
it's scary.
jeff