Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Get 3 bytes
From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:00:35 -0700
On Mar 12, 2007, at 4:32 PM, Steven Le wrote:

guint32 is 32 bits --> so type mismatch???
No, no type mismatch.  I know of no C implementations on modern  
machines that support a 24-bit integral data type, so there's no  
"guint24" type.  A 24-bit value fits in 32 bits, so guint32 works fine  
for the routines to get 24-bit values.
However, as Stephen Fisher noted, unless you actually need to look at  
the value, just use proto_tree_add_item().