Re: egcs -O breaks ping.c:in_cksum()

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:17:43 +1100 (EST), Bruce Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> Perhaps the above should be written as:

>               sum += ntohs(*(u_char *)w << 8);

> to avoid the undefined union access (answer.us).

No.  The IP checksum is defined in a manner which is
endian-independent.  Adding calls to ntohs() would only confuse
matters further.

-GAWollman

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