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| author | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2003-10-28 05:49:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2003-10-28 05:49:29 +0000 |
| commit | 590098604498f12e8d1700e05ca19acbc1548c25 (patch) | |
| tree | 67aabfc559e658715274abaf49ee254d38416b74 /doc/README.developer | |
| parent | 0c389cc678b0f85b19cbf474753ac3a13f6519c4 (diff) | |
As per a suggestion by Olivier Biot, note that objects pointed to by
pointer arguments to "proto_tree_add_XXX" functions are copied - if you
allocated a buffer for one of them (e.g., a string), and you don't free
that buffer when you're done with it, you'll leak memory.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=8796
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/README.developer')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/README.developer | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/README.developer b/doc/README.developer index ac045370a1..8f9add0065 100644 --- a/doc/README.developer +++ b/doc/README.developer @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Id: README.developer,v 1.82 2003/10/20 23:07:43 guy Exp $ +$Id: README.developer,v 1.83 2003/10/28 05:49:29 guy Exp $ This file is a HOWTO for Ethereal developers. It describes how to start coding a Ethereal protocol dissector and the use some of the important functions and @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ code inside is needed only if you are using the "snprintf()" function. -The "$Id: README.developer,v 1.82 2003/10/20 23:07:43 guy Exp $" +The "$Id: README.developer,v 1.83 2003/10/28 05:49:29 guy Exp $" in the comment will be updated by CVS when the file is checked in; it will allow the RCS "ident" command to report which version of the file is currently checked out. @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ version of the file is currently checked out. * Routines for PROTONAME dissection * Copyright 2000, YOUR_NAME <YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS> * - * $Id: README.developer,v 1.82 2003/10/20 23:07:43 guy Exp $ + * $Id: README.developer,v 1.83 2003/10/28 05:49:29 guy Exp $ * * Ethereal - Network traffic analyzer * By Gerald Combs <gerald@ethereal.com> @@ -1375,6 +1375,11 @@ These routines are used to add items to the protocol tree if either: The 'value' argument has the value to be added to the tree. +NOTE: in all cases where the argument is a pointer, a copy is made of +the object pointed to; if you have dynamically allocated a buffer for +the object, that buffer will not be freed when the protocol tree is +freed - you must free the buffer yourself when you don't need it any more. + For proto_tree_add_bytes(), the 'value_ptr' argument is a pointer to a sequence of bytes. |