Made a "first draft" at https://code.wireshark.org/review/7019/
-Original Message-
From: Guy Harris
To: Developer support list for Wireshark
Sent: Fri, Jan 16, 2015 10:55 pm
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] address to string optimization
On Jan 16, 2015, at 11:3
On Jan 16, 2015, at 11:34 AM, mman...@netscape.net wrote:
> I still like the idea of the address types being "centrally registered" (in
> epan directory) and not put into the dissector code, mostly because many of
> the address types are used in multiple dissector/protocols.
Perhaps libwiresha
ctors
do this inconsistently because we still have separate functions for each (i.e.
address_to_str() and get_ether_name()), and those are usually called within a
printf style function themselves.
-Original Message-
From: Guy Harris
To: Developer support list for Wireshark
Sent: Fri,
On Jan 16, 2015, at 6:04 AM, mman...@netscape.net wrote:
> A few weeks ago I stumbled across the following comment in address_to_str.c:
>
> /*XXX FIXME the code below may be called very very frequently in the future.
> optimize it for speed and get rid of the slow sprintfs */
> /* XXX - perha
A few weeks ago I stumbled across the following comment in address_to_str.c:
/*XXX FIXME the code below may be called very very frequently in the future.
optimize it for speed and get rid of the slow sprintfs */
/* XXX - perhaps we should have individual address types register
a table of r
