Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] problems with compiling a dissector under win-xp

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:01:28 -0700
Patrick Fuchs wrote:
I have some functions defined inside an other function. This works fine under Linux.

...or any other system with a compiler that supports that particular GCC extension.

But could this be a problem with windows?

It could be. It could also be a problem with *other* non-GCC compilers that are used to compile Ethereal (so it definitely wouldn't be acceptable for a dissector that's part of Ethereal, either as a builtin dissector or a plugin dissector).