["Maynard, Chris" <Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, an alternative could be to introduce something along the lines of:

 

#define proto_tree_add_int8_item(tree, hf, tvb, start)            proto_tree_add_item(tree, hf, tvb, start, 1, ENC_NA)

#define proto_tree_add_int16_le_item(tree, hf, tvb, start)        proto_tree_add_item(tree, hf, tvb, start, 2, ENC_LITTLE_ENDIAN)

#define proto_tree_add_int16_be_item(tree, hf, tvb, start)        proto_tree_add_item(tree, hf, tvb, start, 2, ENC_BIG_ENDIAN)

#define proto_tree_add_int32_le_item(tree, hf, tvb, start)        proto_tree_add_item(tree, hf, tvb, start, 4, ENC_LITTLE_ENDIAN)

#define proto_tree_add_int32_be_item(tree, hf, tvb, start)        proto_tree_add_item(tree, hf, tvb, start, 4, ENC_BIG_ENDIAN)

#define proto_tree_add_int64_le_item(tree, hf, tvb, start)        proto_tree_add_item(tree, hf, tvb, start, 8, ENC_LITTLE_ENDIAN)

#define proto_tree_add_int64_be_item(tree, hf, tvb, start)        proto_tree_add_item(tree, hf, tvb, start, 8, ENC_BIG_ENDIAN)

 

… and similarly for all the other proto_tree_add_*() functions that take a “little_endian” argument.

 

Another benefit of doing this would be that the length arguments would always be guaranteed to be correct for the type of field being added.

 

- Chris

 

 

From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Anders Broman
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 6:11 PM
To: Developer support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 38106: /trunk/epan/dissectors/ /trunk/epan/dissectors/: packet-bacapp.c

 

Maynard, Chris skrev 2011-07-22 23:23:

My only problem with ENC_NA is that it is defined exactly the same as ENC_BIG_ENDIAN.  If you use ENC_NA in little-endian protocols, it is inevitable that “copy-and-paste” will occur at some point and then these endian bugs will start popping up because an ENC_NA was used where an ENC_LITTLE_ENDIAN should have been.

 

If ENC_NA was defined differently from ENC_BIG_ENDIAN, and if checks were made to be sure only valid ENC_*’s were passed to the proto_tree_add_xyz() functions for the particular FT_* field type, then I think it would make more sense (to me at least).  Right now, I still prefer to use ENC_LITTLE_ENDIAN throughout a little-endian protocol and ENC_BIG_ENDIAN throughout a big-endian protocol because it does no harm to do it and helps avoid future “copy-and-paste” bugs.  I just don’t see any particular advantage with using ENC_NA right now.  (Note that I only say that’s my personal preference; there seem to be more folks preferring ENC_NA, so I will use it too, I guess.)

 

+1 :-)
Anders

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