Nagios Support Forum

Klaus Kuehnhammer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been asked to make the NRPE daemon work on a custom Coldfire board
> (arch m68k), w/Nagios querying the daemon from a linux box.
>
> I ran into some issues with the way CRC32 sums are calculated, as well as
> the packet struct getting differently aligned on the host and board
> (causing the buffer start to be off by 2 bytes depending on where the
> word-align paddings goes and/or the compilers disagreeing on the struct
> size).
>
> The attached patches solve both problems for me, but break compatibility to
> other builds on account of the changed packet struct. I can't think of a
> quick way to avoid that at the moment.
>

Use "__attribute__((__packed__))" in the struct declaration and everywhere
that struct is included in other structs.

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