[bug-inetutils] bug in bitfield macros

[Christopher Zimmermann]

Hello,

I just discovered a small bug in ping. The macros for accessing the 
bitfields in ping.h and the way they are called results in only one bit 
stored per byte. I assume the desired behavior was to store 8 bits per 
byte. So I hope this patch fixes this small issue. It also removes a 
small piece of orphan code.

Currently I'm working on timestamps generated by hardware or software 
using the SO_TIMESTAMPING socket option introduced with linux 2.6.30.

Are you interested in patches for ping to use this feature? How do you 
think I should implement it?
My plan is to add a ping_tstamp[N] of timespecs to the ping_data 
structure in which I will store the transmit timestamps addressed by 
their sequence number modulo N.


Regards,

Christopher Zimmermann

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