IPv4 checksum oddness (gcc compiler bug?)

[Mike Bristow]

On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 00:57, Li, Qing wrote:
> 	I ran into a checksum problem and filed the following bug
> report.
> 	See if it's related.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=69257

To quote from Apple's GCC 3.3 docs:

 You can't expect a sequence of volatile asm instructions to remain
 perfectly consecutive. If you want consecutive output, use a single
 asm.  Also, GCC will perform some optimizations across a volatile asm
 instruction; GCC does not "forget everything" when it encounters a
 volatile asm instruction the way some other compilers do.

I've added a patch to the PR above which uses a single asm statement;
I'll make some noise about it post 5.3.

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