[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Alex Lindberg wrote:
> I need to get the backing or parent tvbuff.  In the past, I have used
>
>    tvbuff_t *new_buff;
>    new_buff = tvb->tvbuffs.subset.tvb
>
> This works in the 1.6 trunk stream.  Now however, in the 1.7 (mainline 
> trunk) this throws a compiler error:
>
>    dereferencing pointer to incomplete type.
>
> I resolved this by adding
>
>    #include <epan/tvbuff-int.h>.
>
> Is there an easier (safer) way to do this?

Well, the first obvious question to me would be: why do you need the 
backing or parent tvbuff?  What is the tvbuff API missing that makes you 
need it?