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authorUlf Lamping <ulf.lamping@web.de>2006-01-25 21:32:55 +0000
committerUlf Lamping <ulf.lamping@web.de>2006-01-25 21:32:55 +0000
commit7b16b24e72ab610a0e362e178380b9fb7d177db9 (patch)
treeee53a8689288f7711b3fa7dee8f7cc270292e576 /docbook
parentaeaf2c6cf62a6b16e68ee84b0db3b9ba12ca418d (diff)
Win32: add SEH to the new features. It might be noteworthy to the users that we probably won't crash for hardware exceptions caused by buggy dissectors
svn path=/trunk/; revision=17101
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-rw-r--r--docbook/release-notes.xml5
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diff --git a/docbook/release-notes.xml b/docbook/release-notes.xml
index dca760d474..e14b9ea0f4 100644
--- a/docbook/release-notes.xml
+++ b/docbook/release-notes.xml
@@ -103,10 +103,11 @@ Gnu info
The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
since the last release:
- <itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
+ Win32: Catch hardware exceptions caused by buggy dissectors.
+ If e.g. a NULL pointer exceptions occurs, Ethereal won't crash now
+ but displays the exception and tries to continue decoding packets.
</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
</para>
</section>