Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] GDK data types in dissectors?

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 16:52:50 -0600
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 15:38:04 -0500
Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am making some modifications to packet-giop.c, and one day
> I may actually finish. ;)
> 
> Is it acceptable coding style to use GDK data types in
> Ethereal dissectors, such as guint8, etc.?  It's not a big deal
> to me, but I thought it might be a good idea to insure the size
> of certain data types in some cases, especially if someone tries
> to compile Ethereal on a 64-bit platform.

Absolutely. We use them all over the place. But they're neither GDK
nor GTK data types; they come from glib, which is just a C utility
library. It is GUI-agnostic.

--gilbert
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