Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Bug 8416 - remove C++ incompatibilities from packet-pw-atm.c
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:14 AM, Anders Broman <a.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Evan Huus skrev 2013-03-01 03:50:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Ed Beroset <beroset@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>> What I would like to see is the abolishment of the
>>>> pwc_packet_properties_t type
>>>> altogether. This is _not_ an enum.
>>>
>>> I agree, and have come across another such "enum abuse" instance that may
>>> be harder to address. Specifically, in the header file gmessages.h there is
>>> a similar typedef enum called GLogLevelFlags which is also intended to
>>> provide names for bitflags rather than actually enumerate. This construct
>>> is used a number of places in the Wireshark code (such as line 3169 of
>>> plugins/asn1/packet-asn1.c). Adding a cast quiets the compiler, but is
>>> there a better way that doesn't require rewriting glib-2.0?
>>>
>>> mylogh = g_log_set_handler (NULL,
>>> GLogLevelFlags(G_LOG_LEVEL_MASK | G_LOG_FLAG_FATAL
>>> |
>>> G_LOG_FLAG_RECURSION), my_log_handler, NULL);
>>>
>>> Ed
>>
>> Not off the top of my head. Fortunately, the vast majority of
>> G_LOG_LEVEL_* uses are in g_log calls that shouldn't cause problems -
>> there are only five or six cases I noticed where we were doing
>> bit-fieldy things with them.
>
> On a side note, does any one know how to regenerate the PIDL dissectors?
> there is a
> potential fix in the template waiting for regeneration.
I think there is an epan/dissectors/pidl/README, though I have never
verified the instruction in it.
