On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 06:40:38PM +0100, Radek Vok�l wrote:
> The wireshark package cannot be build on ppc64 due to ppc64 ABI
> limitation and RRC dissector source file which contains too many
> string constants.
That's not good :(. I didn't realize until now that packet-rrc.c is
about 7MB of text (code) with over 150,000 lines! Only the similar
dissector packet-nbap.c is even close at almost 70,000 lines at about
3.5MB. I assume that packet-nbap.c isn't causing compilation problems
on ppc64? My first thought is to just pull packet-rrc.c from the
makefile, but if you're building packages for others, then leaving out a
dissector could be bad. I wonder if it would make a difference if we
converted it to be a plug-in dissector that ships with Wireshark?
Lacking that, we may be able to make the ASN.1 dissector generator spit
out a file that works on ppc64. Sure seems like a lot of extra work to
support one platform, but then again, maybe it would be easier to manage
anyway having all of those strings handled differently.
Steve