["Luis Ontanon" <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx>]

That applies to ISUP as well, I've always wondered about the reason
behind this oddity.


On 4/10/07, Michael Lum <michael.lum@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's probably even worse than that!
>
> In both GSM and CDMA protocols packed BCD can be represented as:
>
> digit2 digit1
> digit4 digit3
>
> such that two octets:
>
> 0x01 0x23
>
> would be:
>
> 1032
>
> An example is the Called Party BCD Number element.
>
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lars Worsaae
> > Sent: April 7, 2007 12:31 PM
> > To: Developer support list for Wireshark
> > Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] BCD ?
> >
> > Yes
> > And we might even need two different variants of PACKED BCD
> > The problem is how to handle odd number of digits in an
> > integer number of bytes
> >
> > I have two variants
> > leading 0: 0x01 0x23 = 123
> > and
> > trailing F: 0x12 0x3F = 123
> >
> > /Lars
> >
> > On 4/7/07, Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've been interested in BCD presentation as well. For that I've
> > > whipped together some proto_tree_add_bcd() code, but
> > couldn't really
> > > get my head around creating a generic FT_BCD.
> > > For that matter you're talking about PACKED BCD, which is different
> > > from BCD.
> > >
> > > PACKED BCD:     0x46 0x10 -> 4610
> > > BCD:            0x04 0x06 0x01 0x00 -> 4610
> > >
> > > So if we make FT_BCD we also need to make FT_PACKED_BCD.
> > > Anyone a decent manual for adding FTs?
> > >
> > > Thanx,
> > > Jaap
> > >
> > > On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Lars Worsaae wrote:
> > >
> > > > Desr sirs
> > > > Are their a smart(er) way to dissect data which are BCD encoded?
> > > > I cant find i tvb_get_* reading BCD.
> > > > I had roled my own, but am i and my experimental first time
> > > > dissector realy the first and only dissection BCD encoded data?
> > > >
> > > > Rgds Lars
> > > >
> > > > BTW My get'er looks like:
> > > > static guint32
> > > > tvb_get_bcd(tvbuff_t *tvb, int offset, int length) {
> > > >           int i;
> > > >           guint32 val=0;
> > > >           for(i=0;i<length;i++){
> > > >                      guint8 b = tvb_get_guint8(tvb, offset+i);
> > > >                      val = 100*val + ((b>>4)*10 + (b&0xf));
> > > >           }
> > > >           return val;
> > > > }
> > > >
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