Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] ep_alloc overused?
From: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:02:02 +0100
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 07:14:30PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> (Oh, and not use check_col() any more; that's deprecated.)

It's another issue:
	$ grep -Ir 'check_col' ./epan/dissectors | wc -l
	2793
:-)

> I think the base way to handle this *particular* case is to use  
> col_add_fstr().

Thanks for info, I submited my patch in bug #4164 [1]

[1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4164