Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark won't compile on PPC64 boxes
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From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:54:25 -0700
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 06:40:38PM +0100, Radek Vokál wrote:

> The wireshark package cannot be build on ppc64 due to ppc64 ABI 
> limitation and RRC dissector source file which contains too many 
> string constants.

That's not good :(.  I didn't realize until now that packet-rrc.c is 
about 7MB of text (code) with over 150,000 lines!  Only the similar 
dissector packet-nbap.c is even close at almost 70,000 lines at about 
3.5MB.  I assume that packet-nbap.c isn't causing compilation problems 
on ppc64?  My first thought is to just pull packet-rrc.c from the 
makefile, but if you're building packages for others, then leaving out a 
dissector could be bad.  I wonder if it would make a difference if we 
converted it to be a plug-in dissector that ships with Wireshark?

Lacking that, we may be able to make the ASN.1 dissector generator spit 
out a file that works on ppc64.  Sure seems like a lot of extra work to 
support one platform, but then again, maybe it would be easier to manage 
anyway having all of those strings handled differently.


Steve