Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ASN2ETH compiler patch

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From: ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 21:32:37 +1000
that can be done.


On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 02:14:43 -0700, Guy Harris  wrote:
> ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> 
> > 2, merging the existing text dissector into the template for the binary
> > which would make the existing template HUGE
> 
> ...but would reduce the size of "plugins/megaco/packet-megaco.c" to 0
> bytes (in fact, plugins/megaco would presumably just disappear).
> 
> I.e., yes, it'd make the existing template huge, but that's just moving
> code.  Perhaps the fancier stuff to let the text and ASN.1 dissectors
> share some code structure would be nice, but it doesn't have to be done
> immediately.
>