[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 22, 2006, at 3:21 PM, ronnie sahlberg wrote:

> Well   an easy way to make sure all of them are properly terminated
> with a {0,NULL} is by using variadic macros.
> Unfortunately not standard until c99   but been part of GCC forever.

But not necessarily a part of various vendor compilers forever, and  
people *do* use vendor compilers on UN*X to compile Wireshark (Sun C,  
HP's C compiler, and IBM's xlc, to name three that, as I remember, are  
used to compile Wireshark).