Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] basic data type question

[Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 02:41:57PM -0400, Brian Oleksa wrote:

> If I have a field that I am trying to dissect that has a max field 
> size of 8192 bits.
> 
> What data structure should I put this into..??
> 
> Perhaps FT_BYTES, FT_UINT_BYTES .....????

It depends what the information is and what you want to do with it.  
FT_BYTES will display the first so many bytes in hex and then "..." at 
the end with nothing else.