[lwip-users] Problem with socket send()

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Hi

I have written a SMTP client and used the socket programming. I did the 
programming with an old version of lwIP (prior 1.20 but newer than 
1.10... I think). With this version the SMTO client works like expected. 
After switching to the latest CVS HEAD the SMTP client does not work 
well any more.
The problem happens if the SMTP code calls 3 times the send() function, 
one after another and only if any of the first two calls of send() is 
called with a odd number of bytes to send, like (pseudo code):

send(SmtpState.iSocket, "abcdefgh", 8, 0); // Send_0
send(SmtpState.iSocket, "012345",  5, 0); // Send_1
send(SmtpState.iSocket, "ABCDEF", 6, 0); // Send_2

If the "Send_1" would be called with an even number of bytes the problem 
does not occur.

After recording the frames with the Wireshark software. I found, that 
the three calls of send() resulting in one frame which is send over the 
Ethernet (I use a CS8900 Ethernet chip with 16Bit access). But the data 
content of the this frame seems to be wrong. It looks like :

"abdcdefgh012345 ABCDEF" instead of "abdcdefgh012345ABCDEF"

It seems, that the different buffers (or the data inside) used by the 
three send() calls are not merged the right way. I tracked down the 
problem to the functions tcp_output() and tcp_output_segment(), but the 
code is very difficult to understand.

BTW: If I insert a time-out (I use a RTOS) between the send() calls the 
data is send correct, of course in separate frames.

I did verified the problem on to different architectures (a H8S and an 
ARM7 Hardware; means a 16- and a 32-bit system). The problem is the same 
on both systems.

Does somebody have an idea what's going wrong here ? Does somebody could 
verify this behaviour ?
Thank you very much for any help.

Kind regards
Roland