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From: Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>
Subject: Re: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 01:01:59 +0300
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On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 03:56:37PM -0400, Anshuman S. Rawat wrote:
> Hi,
> I got the following error while compiling some module -
>  
> 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];
>  };
>  
>  are the definitions.
>  
>  I haven't been able to figure out what the problem is.
> Any help will be appreciated.
>  

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.

>  Thanks.
> Anshuman
>  
> 
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