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| author | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2003-10-06 19:11:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2003-10-06 19:11:41 +0000 |
| commit | b7183b32b90744e0ed5480ff75be3848d8b3cad6 (patch) | |
| tree | c7dd59ae8903fc3b038ed1b5be270826a469a83f /doc | |
| parent | 7a593c3d3cafbac4158b18245f674b4ae547cad1 (diff) | |
Add One More Item to the list of things not all compilers can handle.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=8627
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/README.developer | 24 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/README.developer b/doc/README.developer index 63ae48b00d..d78bf47e5b 100644 --- a/doc/README.developer +++ b/doc/README.developer @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Id: README.developer,v 1.78 2003/07/30 23:18:55 guy Exp $ +$Id: README.developer,v 1.79 2003/10/06 19:11:41 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 @@ -171,6 +171,24 @@ also do to properly define it for UNIX (it's not necessary on UNIX). +Don't use forward declarations of static arrays without a specified size +in a fashion such as this: + + static const value_string foo_vals[]; + + ... + + static const value_string foo_vals[] = { + { 0, "Red" }, + { 1, "Green" }, + { 2, "Blue" }, + { 0, NULL } + }; + +as some compilers will reject the first of those statements. Instead, +initialize the array at the point at which it's first declared, so that +the size is known. + 1.1.2 Name convention. Ethereal uses the underscore_convention rather than the InterCapConvention for @@ -208,7 +226,7 @@ code inside is needed only if you are using the "snprintf()" function. -The "$Id: README.developer,v 1.78 2003/07/30 23:18:55 guy Exp $" +The "$Id: README.developer,v 1.79 2003/10/06 19:11:41 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. @@ -218,7 +236,7 @@ version of the file is currently checked out. * Routines for PROTONAME dissection * Copyright 2000, YOUR_NAME <YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS> * - * $Id: README.developer,v 1.78 2003/07/30 23:18:55 guy Exp $ + * $Id: README.developer,v 1.79 2003/10/06 19:11:41 guy Exp $ * * Ethereal - Network traffic analyzer * By Gerald Combs <gerald@ethereal.com> |