Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] How to handle compiler padding?

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> The functions pntohs|l are useful in this context,

Replace "useful in this context" with "necessary in most contexts" (and,
for some contexts, use "pletoh[sl]()" rather than "pntoh[sl]()"), as per
my previous mail.

> If you're lucky enough to have a structure where the multibyte
> primitives start on 32-bit boundaries (and you're running on a 32-bit
> machine) then you may be in luck.

...but not if

	1) the machine on which you're running Ethereal doesn't have the
	   same byte order as the one specified for your protocol;

	2) the stuff *before* it in the packet doesn't happen to be of
	   such as size as to cause stuff to be properly aligned.