On Oct 27, 2009, at 1:01 AM, Josef Frühwirth wrote:
> The example says data structure should look like:
> static const value_string packettypenames[] = {
> { 1, "Initialise" },
> { 2, "Terminate" },
> { 3, "Data" },
> { 0, NULL }
> };
>
> when omitting the last line "{ 0, NULL }"
> wireshark crashes.
Yes, that's why the example says that - you need the last line there.
> Does this last line have a ETX functionality ?
Yes. It's like the '\0' at the end of a C string, or the NULL "next"
pointer at the end of a singly-linked list, or like any of a number of
other data structures terminated with an end marker.
> Shouldn't there be a better way to check the size/end of this data
> structure!?
"Better" in what sense? Harder to omit?
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