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Re: [Axp-hardware] Alpha: bad unaligned access handling

Subject: Re: [Axp-hardware] Alpha: bad unaligned access handling
From: Jason Burrell (jburrell@mac.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 14 08:37:54 2001


There is a bug in older versions of ping that made alignment assumptions.
I don't know if there is an updated Woody package, but the bug has been
fixed.

-Jason

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
...
> With my currently installed ping (netkit-ping 0.10-6 from Debian Woody)
> I get unaligned accesses:
...
> [jbglaw@air:/home/jbglaw] $> ping -c 1 localhost
> PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=13.8 ms
> wrong data byte #8 should be 0x8 but was 0xdc
> c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2a 2b
> 2c 2d 2e 2f 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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