Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 27844: /trunk/epan/dissectors/ /trunk/epan/dissectors/:

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 06:08:43PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> or, as translate.google.com says:
> 
> > I further noted that the b-field is not displayed correctly.
> > Either g_snprintf broken, or we are unable to both the
> > function to use.
> > The string is made from 16x% .2 x + spaces together what
> > My calculations of a maximum length of 144 characters + null byte  
> > follows.
> > therefore I have the string variable to 145 high and use again
> > sprintf. here the patch to do so.
> 
> So what was g_snprintf() doing that was wrong?  (The second argument  
> was correct in the calls - the total length of the buffer should be  
> passed, as that length includes the terminating null byte.)  And what  
> version of GLib was he using?

The problem seems to be that only the last two characters are shown instead
of the full length string. A problem with g_snprintf may be that it
doesn't like to use a rhs argument as its lhs result. sprintf supports
that.

 ciao
     Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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