Masked bitfield comparisons may yield incorrect results

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199903270709.CAA00635@trinity.ihack.net >you write:
  > 
  > Sorry for not getting back to this sooner.  Since nobody was
  > responding to my mail, it fell off my queue.
Stuff got backed up behind egcs-1.1.2 release issues.  We're digging through
the backlog trying to resolve everything we can in preparation for egcs-1.2.


  > With the 3 patches I sent, all problems I'm aware of in that code path
  > have been fixed.
Great!


  > Regarding the DHCP problem, that was a server-side issue.  It had to
  > do with the third case, where you're comparing fields that are
  > adjacent in both structures but in different positions, and that
  > causes lnbitsize and rnbitsize to be different.  The symptom was that
  > a comparison always failed in dhcprequest() and the server never sent
  > ACKs.
OK.  My problem was client-side, so it's unlikely to be the same problem. 

Thanks for the info.

jeff