Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] IKEv2 support

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From: Shoichi Sakane <sakane@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:27:39 +0900
Thank you for helpful comment.

> A lot of the lists for strings in this dissector use locally defined structs
> such as static struct type2str_t v2_idtypestr[] = {
> and locally defined macros to search them.
> 
> It would be much better if these lists of strings were changed into a 
> struct value_string  since htere are standard methods (val_to_str) in ethereal
> to parse this kind of very common datastructure.

> can you consider refactoring all the lists of strings into being value_string ?

Sure, I will try to change them.  There are alike mechanism such like
char *p1_atttypestr[NUM_P1_ATT_TYPES] = { and macros to convert them
in the original source code.  Should I improve them to the method what
you suggested ?