On Jan 25, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Gerald Combs wrote:
> Assuming hf_helen_flowname is an FT_STRING, couldn't you dispense with
> the string-fetching and ptr-tracking entirely and just use
>
> proto_tree_add_item(helen_sub_tree, hf_helen_flowname, tvb,
> offset, 8, FALSE);
>
> ?
It looks as if it's a zero-padded string; that will happen to work currently, as string values are null-terminated and if there are any padding bytes, the first of them will terminate the string.
We might want to have an FT_STRINGZPAD type, to make it clear that some fields are zero-padded rather than counted or null-terminated.
