Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 52264: /trunk/ /trunk/epan/: value_s

From: Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 08:46:23 -0400
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 8:44 AM,  <eapache@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=52264
>
> User: eapache
> Date: 2013/09/29 12:44 PM
>
> Log:
>  Replace some val_to_str calls with the equivalent val_to_str_const calls (and
>  implement rval_to_str_const to do this). The format-strings didn't have any
>  parameter specifiers in them, so they were clearly never used (or they would
>  have blown up) but still a bug.
>
>  This is one of the first steps towards converting val_to_str and friends to
>  wmem. I'm honestly not sure what the best approach is for the API in this case:
>  the vast majority of usage is within dissectors, so just hard-coding packet
>  scope (the way they currently hard-code ep_ scope) doesn't look terrible, but
>  there are *some* uses in taps and other places that will need to be converted to
>  something else if we go that route. Adding a wmem_pool parameter just for the
>  uncommon case seems a bit like overkill, though perhaps it is the right thing to
>  do.

Thoughts on this?