Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 22586: /trunk/epan/dissectors/ /trunk/epan/dissectors/:

[Stig Bjørlykke <stig.bjorlykke@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 23. aug. 2007 kl. 00.34 skrev Guy Harris:

> That's adding one more layer, with what amounts to a copy of the value
> underneath it.  Other than providing the raw offset, what advantages
> does it offer?  (There, I think, are other dissectors that have
> bitfields that aren't in a subtree; if the word containing all the
> bitfields isn't specified as an item of its own in the protocol, I'm
> not sure it needs to be put into the protocol tree.)

I think it's much more easy to read the leading text and the value if  
the details of the bitfields does not start the line.  Ofcourse my  
personal opinion, but mostly I do not care about the bits.


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Stig Bjørlykke