Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] check_col() depcreated?

From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 18:36:19 +0200
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 04:44:26PM +0200, Jaap Keuter wrote:
> Indeed this was done to find/eliminate some tricky crashes of  
> Wireshark. Like with proto_add_*(), which has the requirement for tree! 
> =NULL removed, the col_*() functions are now hardened against ! 
> check_col().
> Still it's not wrong to test for it, and most, if not all, still does.  
> With the branch of 1.2 on the horizon I would suggest holding off this  
> 'housekeeping'  issue until we're working on 1.3.

Hmm, how about removing that function and adding an empty #define for
it in the .h file and #undefine it in the .c file after including
the .h-file. If no new problems come up, people may safely remove that stuff
any time they want and the initial patch isn't big.

 Ciao
     Joerg
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