Re: [lwip-devel] Bug in Checksum implementation and ARP fix

[David Vrabel]

> Makes sense, but I would point out why I'm sensitized to this: I ported some
> code from an 8-bit architecture to a 32-bit DSP a couple years ago, and the
> most troublesome part of the port was the assumption that casting to a char
> performed masking to 8 bits.

The ISO C99 standard specifies a whole bunch of special types in 
<stdint.h> for this very purpose.  uint8_t for example.

David Vrabel
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