> So that would be option (c) then?
> c) Define ENC_NA differently from both ENC_LITTLE_ENDIAN and ENC_BIG_ENDIAN.
>
> The impact of this would imply these other changes:
>
> For every proto_tree_add_*() function:
> -> Change the "const gboolean little_endian" argument to something like "gint endian"
> -> Verify "endian" is valid for the given FT_ and choke on invalid ones.
>
> And of course, change all the dissectors to use appropriate ENC_'s in the proto_tree_add_*() function calls.
Even if this is probably a lot of work, I vote for this approach. For the 1.8
release we should emit warnings if FT_ and ENC_ don't match, then for 1.10 emit
error/exceptions, so that eventually all FT_ and ENC_ values express the real
relationship.
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