Ethereal-cvs: [ethereal-cvs] cvs commit: ethereal/doc README.developer

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 02:57:10 -0600 (CST)
guy         2000/03/10 02:57:08 CST

  Modified files:
    doc                  README.developer 
  Log:
  Fix some typos.
  
  Get rid of the paragraph about C++-style comments at the beginning of
  the document, as it also appears in section 1.1.1 "Comments".
  
  Add a section on how to extract data from packets, which explains the
  "pd" and "offset" arguments to a dissector, and notes that you should
  not just blithely cast pointers into the packet data to 2-byte or 4-byte
  integral types and dereference them, as the pointer may not be aligned,
  and the field may not have the same byte order as the processor on which
  Ethereal is running (in fact, it's probably *guaranteed* not to on at
  least one machine, as Ethereal runs on both big-endian and little-endian
  platforms...).
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.9       +54 -13    ethereal/doc/README.developer