Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] Self documenting dissectors

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From: Frank Singleton <frank.singleton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 08:13:20 -0500
Hi,

Here's an idea I have been toying with . 

To enable rapid verification of a dissector, why
not have it self document all the mssage types it
successfully dissected and what msg elements also.

A successful msg dissection could just set a "tested ok"
flag for that msg entry, and we could have the option to dump
the msg tested array as a button on the GTK GUI
for example.

The same idea could apply to msg elements.

I would then be able to rapidly determine what msg's
and elements are outstanding to test !!

I think the overhead is minimal..

Comments / Frank..

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