Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Attempting new dissectors using ASN and asn2wrs under MSVC 2008E

["Adrienne E. Siskind" <asiskind@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Anders.  Both suggestions helped.

Turns out that's not the only ASN construct in the SLE specs that 
asn2wrs doesn't like, so I'll be making a list of them as I progress.

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[snip - using foo example from wiki]
> > The resulting compile fails for the asn2wrs-generated packet-foo.c. 
> > The compilation errors ostensibly occur in packet-per.h, and are of 
> > the type I'd usually expect to see if there was a missing closing 
> > brace somewhere above.  I did change the inclusion of packet-per.h to 
> > packet-ber.h to see what would happen, but this simply replaced one 
> > set of compile errors with another.
> >
>
> Did you #include <epan/asn1.h>?

BTW - this did need to be added to the output of asn2wrs, which supposedly 
shouldn't be modified, and I'd have expected it to be in the generated 
file.  Is it enough to mention that here, or should it be entered in 
bugzilla also?


[snip - CCSDS SLE Forward CLTU def]
> > The spec is here (the asn definition is in Annex A at the end):
> > http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/912x1b2c1.pdf
> >
> > The line in question reads:
> >     IdentifierString ::= VisibleString (FROM (ALL EXCEPT " "))
> >
>
> I think asn2wrs may not handle that construct, to get it to compile try
> to replace it with:
>
> IdentifierString ::= VisibleString
> (later it could be replaced by a list of all VisibleString
> chars except " "

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Adrienne