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From: Christoph Bussenius <busseniu@cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de>
Subject: Re: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:14:13 +0200
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On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 03:56:37PM -0400, Anshuman S. Rawat wrote:
> Arping.xs:153: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>  make: *** [Arping.o] Error 1
>  
>  memcpy(enet_src, src_mac->ether_addr_octet,6);

...

>  struct ether_addr
>  {
>      u_char  ether_addr_octet[6];
>  };

Hi, I think you should define that struct _before_ you use it. This
error is exactly what you get when you define it later.

HTH,
Christoph

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