Hi, Sure you can use malloc, but please read doc/README.malloc for all the benefits ep_alloc and friends provide.
The fact that you get undefined reference means that you're working with old sourcefiles??? Thanx, Jaap On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, prashanth joshi wrote: > Hi , can i use malloc to allocate memory in ethereal code ? > What i want to do is to allocate memory and then fill in the contents and > then add it to the display tree. > If I use malloc, will not it cause problems like platform dependence and > memory leaks? > I used ep_alloc( ) but i'm getting error " undefined reference to ep_alloc". > Also, can i use malloc for any general purpose data manipulation....?, say > like allocating a structure sized memory using malloc and then copying n > bytes of the tvbuff in to the allocated memory and then manipulate the data. > Regards, > Prashanth > _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
