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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] FT_UINT64 patch

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From: David Frascone <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 07:23:45 -0600
The diameter dissector only wants to display the 64bit number.  Currently, 
there are no AVPs in the base protocol that use the 64bit integers (or, that
use any of the floating point types).

One day I'll get around to writing a test app to use them :)

-Dave

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 07:54:25PM +1100, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> I guess that at least for quite some time, 64bit integer fields in protocols
> will
> be relativly rare since I guess very few protocols actually NEED to transfer
> 64bit scalar types.