Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] What is the purpose of the preprocessor constant _U_ in the source code?

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

jscott wrote:

> I’m trying to compile the Ethereal source under WinXP, and there are 
> compile errors caused by the _/U/_ preprocessor constant. In the 
> project settings it’s defined to be “”, an empty string. This causes a 
> compile error,” Newline in constant.” I tried redefining it to 
> nothing, but this doesn’t help; I just get a different compiler error 
> message.
The _U_ is used together with the gcc compiler, to mark unused 
parameter. With MSVC compilers, it should just do nothing.

Please provide the exact error messages, I don't have a cristal ball at 
hand ...

Regards, ULFL