The following reply was made to PR kern/34751; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud@netbsd.org>
To: netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp
Subject: Re: kern/34751: regular panics in tcp_sack_option on NetBSD/alpha 3.0_STABLE
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:42:30 +0200

 Dear folks,
 
 i think the patch Izumi Tsutsui provided is correct. I stumbled on this 
 same problem today with NetBSD/sparc 4.0_beta (!) so it has been dormant 
 for quite some time. Propably gcc4 lossage/gain.
 
 Only point of improval could be the usage of `uint8_t' instead of `char' 
 since that has an implicit assumption that sizeof(char)=1. Not that i see 
 that change in the future, but i'm just one of the folks who like stricter 
 typing in such matters ;)
 
 With regards,
 Reinoud