Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Make "giop plugins" built in dissectors?

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Morriss wrote:
> Anders Broman wrote:
> > Hi,
> > It should be possible to make the giop plugins built in dissectors 
> > now, is that something we'd want to do?
>
> I'd be all for it mainly so/if we can put packet-parlay.c at the top of 
> the list of dissectors so that my "make -j X" can start the 15 minutes 
> it takes to compile that beast as early as possible!  (Okay, 15 minutes 
> is probably an exaggeration, but it does take a *very* long time to 
> compile.)

Haha, thought this was funny: today I did a build on Solaris 10/SPARC 
with GCC 4.6.3 and, after about 45(!) minutes (yeah, I know, SPARCs 
aren't fast), got this when compiling packet-parlay.c:

> epan/dissectors/packet-parlay.c:96834:17: note: variable tracking size limit
> exceeded with -fvar-tracking-assignments, retrying without

I wonder if modern GCCs will have that problem or if it's just this 
version or (doubtful) the architecture.  It would be really nice if this 
file could be split up.