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

From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/34751: regular panics in tcp_sack_option on NetBSD/alpha 3.0_STABLE
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:31:20 +0200

 On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
 >  Only point of improval could be the usage of `uint8_t' instead of `char' 
 >  since that has an implicit assumption that sizeof(char)=1.
 
 sizeof(char) = 1 by definition of how sizeof works.  sizeof measures in
 units of chars, no matter how big a char actually is.
 
 Assuming that a char is the same as an octet is nonportable, however, so
 having network code use uint8_t instead of char seems reasonable to me.
 
 --apb (Alan Barrett)