Hello,

Display it. You are writing a dissector which describes the data seen on the 
wire, not one which goes "You are not interested in this".

Also, if there is something on the screen which says "Reserved" or a number of 
bits which say "Not in use" and there is a value in it, then you know that 
there has been some update in the protocol and that you need to update your 
dissector.

Edwin

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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kaul
Sent: Monday, 9 December 2013 02:54
To: Developer support list for Wireshark
Subject: [Wireshark-dev] To display reserved fields or not display reserved 
fields, that is the question...

Should I:

proto_tree_add_text(seg_param_tree, tvb, offset, 2, "reserved");
offset += 2;

or:
offset += 2; /* reserved */

What is better? (Regretully I'm working on SCSI, whose creators LOVED 
sprinkling reserved bytes everywhere!).


Do we have a standard? (perhaps worth having a global param for it?!).
Y.
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