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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 38304: /trunk/epan/dissectors/ /trun

From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 09:04:10 -0600
On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 08:42:53AM -0400, Maynard, Chris wrote:

> Oops.  Thanks.  Would it make sense to have these types of dissectors 
> automatically generated at compile time?

If there was a way to tell if it was changed and only then generate it, 
I would say yes.  If it is re-generated without changes, I suspect the 
compiler would recompile it every time.