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> Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1994 12:02:27 -0500
> From: "Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd@alpha.bostic.com>
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> > Probably it should use 4 instead of sizeof(u_long), in fact.
> 
> sizeof(u_int32_t) rather than 4, even...  8-)
> 
> so what if the latter two are guaranteed (by definition) to be the
> same thing...  8-)

Unless your compiler/CPU does this:
	sizeof(char)  == 1
	sizeof(short) == 1
	sizeof(long)  == 1
because the smallest addressable unit is 32-bits.
(The ADI 21060 DSP chip has this "feature" )-:

This is just to inform you of this interesting bit of trivia,
not to say how the ppp code should be written.

Gordon