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From: "Anshuman S. Rawat" <asr@cs.columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:02:04 -0400
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To: Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>, linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org

> > Arping.xs:153: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> >  make: *** [Arping.o] Error 1
> >
> >  Now line 153 in the source is - 
> >  
> >  memcpy(enet_src, src_mac->ether_addr_octet,6);
> >  where
> >  u_char enet_src[6] = {0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,0x00};
> >  struct ether_addr *src_mac;
> >  struct ether_addr
> >  {
> >      u_char  ether_addr_octet[6];
> >  };
> 
> Try as a test to add the struct definition just before the call to
> memcpy and see if that resolves the error. Could be that for some
> reason things aren't included properly.

I already tried this. It didn't help.

-Anshuman