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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Passing NULL to %s format specifiers

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:10:57 -0700
On Aug 15, 2012, at 8:12 AM, Evan Huus wrote:

> I'm a fan of a macro like Jakub mentioned as part of the old conversation:
> 
> http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201105/msg00205.html

...but let's have the macro report a dissector bug if it sees a null pointer.  The dissector in question should probably say something other than just "(null)" if whatever routine supplied the pointer failed for some reason.