Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Missing expert info

[Andreas <AndreasSander1@xxxxxxx>]

Am 10.12.2010 15:33, schrieb Christopher Maynard:
> Andreas<AndreasSander1@...>  writes:
>
> > I found an inconsistency with the expert info. While expert infos of
> > severity ERROR are reported, these are not displayed in the summary dialogs.
>
> Please file a bug report for this ... preferably with a capture file exhibiting
> the incorrect behavior attached to the report.  Thanks.

I detected the problem with the expert_info reporting. The dissector DLL 
has to report the expert info already when the file is loaded. At this 
point of time the dissect function is called with tree==NULL. But the 
dissector in question delayed the expert_info until the tree must be 
populated.

So it looks like that it is bad practice to check for tree==NULL. The 
proto_tree_add_... functions will check for tree==NULL by itself. The 
delayed dissection was done for improved speed. ;-(

--
Andy