Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Replace TRUE/FALSE with proper ENC_* in proto_tree_add_item() using a script.

[David Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 11:38:48AM -0700, Dirk Jagdmann wrote:
> >I propose to use a perl script to automate as much as reasonable the
> >replacement of TRUE/FALSE in the encoding parameter of the
> >proto_tree_add_item() calls in dissectors as follows:
> 
> sounds good, but may be difficult to write. Because you would need
> to write a parser for C function calls in perl. regular expressions
> won't do the trick, as they can not reliably match parenthesi. Also
> keep in mind that those proto_tree_*() functions can use multiple
> lines. But just doing regular expression may give you 90% of the
> cases which would be good enough.

Sounds like a perfect job for Coccinelle, <http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/>.

Dave

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