netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 1/4] ieee802154: add generic header handling routines

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Message-ID: <19514b391e2cebb00f895de862f2a598.squirrel@webmail.itwm.fhg.de>
Date:	Thu, 6 Mar 2014 19:28:22 +0100
From:	"Phoebe Buckheister" <phoebe.buckheister@...m.fraunhofer.de>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	phoebe.buckheister@...m.fraunhofer.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-zigbee-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 1/4] ieee802154: add generic header 
 handling routines

> Why is that surprising?  It's the network header.

I have a rather language-lawyerly background and tend to err on the side
of caution by assuming that all implementation-defined behaviour, such as
allocation and order of bitfield members, *will* break in the wild once
enough architectures are involved. Thus my surprise and question.

> memcpy() "just works"

Perfect. Thank you for your patience :)

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