Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ethereal crash

[Nina Pham <nina@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's really strange. When I set a break point in a my dissector file, 
and opened a small cap file. It ran successfully. But if there's no 
breakpoint set, ethereal crash when open a same cap file. Any idea?

Francisco Alcoba (TS/EEM) wrote:

> > I'm trying to write a new dissector. when I open a file with 
> > more than around 40 packets, ethereal crash. I don't do any 
> > memory allocation, but it seems like memory leaks somewhere. 
> > Is there anyway I can debug the dissector I just wrote? I'm 
> > using nmake in windows xp.
> >    
>
> Hi,
>
> You can create a Visual C project of type "Makefile" giving the 
> makefile.nmake file as an argument. It will not incorporate the sources
> to the project tree, but if you open any of the files -e.g. your dissector-
> you can set a breakpoint and continue debugging from there.
>
> I've found it easier to compile from the command line and debug in the GUI
> afterwards, I never get environment variables right in Visual -although 
> incremental compilations usually work-.
>
> Regards,
>  Francisco
>
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