Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 2902] Crash when loading capture file and Preferences: NO

Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:08 -0800 (PST)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2902





--- Comment #12 from didier gautheron <dgautheron@xxxxxxxx>  2009-01-15 00:00:07 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> Why not put the check into the API? This check has to be done always, so it
> might as well be done there. It removes the burden of checking the columns
> writability from the application (dissector/tap), just like was done for the
> proto_tree_add_xxx(tree, ...) where the check for tree!=NULL was made obsolete
> by adding it to the API, hence cleaning up the code a lot.
> 

Yes it's an option.

But:
- by moving check_col inside col_xxx functions there's a small semantic change.
something like:
if (check_col(...) {
   while(foo) {
      col_append_xxx(....),
      if (bar) col_set_writable(..., FALSE);
      ...
   }
}
is currently possible.

- if we clean up the code, it could make backporting patches to the 1.0 branch
harder.


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