Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Invalid man page

[Frank Singleton <frank.singleton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > Something strange here...or perhaps I need some coffee ??
> >
> > If I change #if 0 to #if 1 to compile
> > with register_giop_user_module(dissect_test_idl,"TEST_IDL","Echo");
> >
> > then i get this error.
> 
> Are you certain that Ethereal isn't simply dropping core in the
> dissector handoff registration process due to, say, a bug in
> "register_giop_user_module()"?  Most, possibly all, of the times *I've*
> seen
> 
>         ...pod2man: Invalid man page - no documentation in ethereal.pod
> 
> it's been due to Ethereal simply dropping core.

Hi,

I ran ./ethereal -G as you and Gilbert suggested,
and that core dumped :(

Yep that found it. Missed a ptr initialisation in my code.
Thanks for the help.... time for a break :)

Cheers / Frank..

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