Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ASN2ETH compiler patch

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 02:14:43 -0700
ronnie sahlberg wrote:

2, merging the existing text dissector into the template for the binary
which would make the existing template HUGE

...but would reduce the size of "plugins/megaco/packet-megaco.c" to 0 bytes (in fact, plugins/megaco would presumably just disappear).

I.e., yes, it'd make the existing template huge, but that's just moving code. Perhaps the fancier stuff to let the text and ASN.1 dissectors share some code structure would be nice, but it doesn't have to be done immediately.