From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Flemming Greve Skovengaard Subject: Re: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:07:26 +0200 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40D09A6E.70308@vip.cybercity.dk> References: <3aa6093abd75.3abd753aa609@homemail.nyu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3aa6093abd75.3abd753aa609@homemail.nyu.edu> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie Cc: Anshuman Singh Rawat Anshuman Singh Rawat wrote: > Hi, > This might be the wrong question for this list, but I am giving it a shot. > > 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. > Can anyone help me with this ? > > Thanks. > Anshuman > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > > . > Subscribe to and try: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org You may get a better responce. -- Flemming Greve Skovengaard Just a few small tears between a.k.a Greven, TuxPower Someone happy and one sad Just a thin line drawn between 4112.38 BogoMIPS Being a genius or insane - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs