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| author | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2001-04-20 22:00:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2001-04-20 22:00:27 +0000 |
| commit | b361003bc52965dbbfbdee2abc5c70efb20c38a6 (patch) | |
| tree | cd78d38abcaca68b0fc8363c7cf0c678a242e63a /doc | |
| parent | f4db05c7d16edffd13c41a2d8b877c9f514bbc52 (diff) | |
Explain BASE_{DEC,HEX,OCT,BIN} a bit more, note that BASE_BIN is for
binary but currently is just decimal, and note that you may not use
BASE_NONE for integers.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=3352
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/README.developer | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/README.developer b/doc/README.developer index 8478fb501f..ef40451385 100644 --- a/doc/README.developer +++ b/doc/README.developer @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Id: README.developer,v 1.27 2001/04/20 20:34:31 guy Exp $ +$Id: README.developer,v 1.28 2001/04/20 22:00:27 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 @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ code inside is needed only if you are using the "snprintf()" function. -The "$Id: README.developer,v 1.27 2001/04/20 20:34:31 guy Exp $" +The "$Id: README.developer,v 1.28 2001/04/20 22:00:27 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. @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ version of the file is currently checked out. * Routines for PROTONAME dissection * Copyright 2000, YOUR_NAME <YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS> * - * $Id: README.developer,v 1.27 2001/04/20 20:34:31 guy Exp $ + * $Id: README.developer,v 1.28 2001/04/20 22:00:27 guy Exp $ * * Ethereal - Network traffic analyzer * By Gerald Combs <gerald@ethereal.com> @@ -683,6 +683,10 @@ are: BASE_OCT, BASE_BIN +BASE_DEC, BASE_HEX, and BASE_OCT are decimal, hexadecimal, and octal, +respectively. BASE_BIN is reserved for binary, although it's currently +treated as decimal - if you want decimal, use BASE_DEC, not BASE_BIN. + For FT_BOOLEAN fields that are also bitfields, 'display' is used to tell the proto_tree how wide the parent bitfield is. With integers this is not needed since the type of integer itself (FT_UINT8, FT_UINT16, @@ -691,7 +695,7 @@ bitfield is. Additionally, BASE_NONE is used for 'display' as a NULL-value. That is, for non-integers and non-bitfield FT_BOOLEANs, you'll want to use BASE_NONE -in the 'display' field. +in the 'display' field. You may not use BASE_NONE for integers. It is possible that in the future we will record the endianness of integers. If so, it is likely that we'll use a bitmask on the display field |