egcs/linux networking problem isolated

[Jeffrey A Law]

  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