On 04/26/2010 07:01 PM, Eric Blossom wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 03:26:46PM -0700, Matt Ettus wrote:
>   
>> On 04/26/2010 03:19 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
>>     
>>> Optional fields, optional packing formats.  Rather a nightmare.  Doing a
>>> Wireshark parser is going to
>>>   be just so much fun :-)
>>>       
>>
>> We use a very well defined subset of VRT which makes parsing a lot
>> easier.  We don't use class fields, for example.
>>
>> Matt
>>     
> FWIW, the code that's already written handles all of the cases
> consistently.  It wasn't a big deal.  There's a finite set of stuff
> and there's some machine generated code that handles all the optionally
> there/not-there cases.
>
> Eric
>
>
>   
Well, perhaps I should look at that code as a dissector core for
Wireshark, then.

Does it handle the lovely "optimized for wire-format-density vs
optimized-for-machine-processing" wire-format
  variabilities?



-- 
Marcus Leech
Principal Investigator
Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
http://www.sbrac.org




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