diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'epan')
| -rw-r--r-- | epan/export_object.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/epan/export_object.h b/epan/export_object.h index 1e0e25e174..ddff34a084 100644 --- a/epan/export_object.h +++ b/epan/export_object.h @@ -36,7 +36,13 @@ typedef struct _export_object_entry_t { gchar *content_type; gchar *filename; /* We need to store a 64 bit integer to hold a file length - (was guint payload_len;) */ + (was guint payload_len;) + + XXX - we store the entire object in the program's address space, + so the *real* maximum object size is size_t; if we were to export + objects by going through all of the packets containing data from + the object, one packet at a time, and write the object incrementally, + we could support objects that don't fit into the address space. */ gint64 payload_len; guint8 *payload_data; } export_object_entry_t; |