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| author | guy <guy@f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7> | 2002-11-09 08:37:00 +0000 |
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| committer | guy <guy@f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7> | 2002-11-09 08:37:00 +0000 |
| commit | 8bebcf911ea845ead0aab3e0e35c875b52e191fa (patch) | |
| tree | a39863972ad2bb2e19defd4ae89718eecf0dead0 /doc | |
| parent | ff5468a2b2e17651cb4794545956dfbe3c7ec5e7 (diff) | |
Put in a note about "ntoh[ls]()" and "hton[ls]()" vs. the GLib versions
of same.
git-svn-id: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/wireshark/trunk@6594 f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/README.developer | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/README.developer b/doc/README.developer index 56da6bf83d..3193f3f439 100644 --- a/doc/README.developer +++ b/doc/README.developer @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Id: README.developer,v 1.64 2002/11/03 20:24:12 guy Exp $ +$Id: README.developer,v 1.65 2002/11/09 08:37:00 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 @@ -112,6 +112,15 @@ Ethereal is running. Use the tvbuff routines to extract individual items from the packet, or use "proto_tree_add_item()" and let it extract the items for you. +Don't use "ntohs()", "ntohl()", "htons()", or "htonl()"; the header +files required to define or declare them differ between platforms, and +you might be able to get away with not including the appropriate header +file on your platform but that might not work on other platforms. +Instead, use "g_ntohs()", "g_ntohl()", "g_htons()", and "g_htonl()"; +those are declared by <glib.h>, and you'll need to include that anyway, +as Ethereal header files that all dissectors must include use stuff from +<glib.h>. + 1.1.2 Name convention. Ethereal uses the underscore_convention rather than the InterCapConvention for @@ -149,7 +158,7 @@ code inside is needed only if you are using the "snprintf()" function. -The "$Id: README.developer,v 1.64 2002/11/03 20:24:12 guy Exp $" +The "$Id: README.developer,v 1.65 2002/11/09 08:37:00 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. @@ -159,7 +168,7 @@ version of the file is currently checked out. * Routines for PROTONAME dissection * Copyright 2000, YOUR_NAME <YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS> * - * $Id: README.developer,v 1.64 2002/11/03 20:24:12 guy Exp $ + * $Id: README.developer,v 1.65 2002/11/09 08:37:00 guy Exp $ * * Ethereal - Network traffic analyzer * By Gerald Combs <gerald@ethereal.com> |