Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] problems compiling dissector with new etherealversion

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Martin Regner wrote:

> Guy Harris wrote:
>  
>
> > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:41:38AM +0200, findeisen.lutz@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > I'm  currently working on a dissector t o analyze MPEG2 I started with
> > > ethereal version 0.9.16 and everything worked perfect, now I want to
> > > change to the newest version but it doesn't work after compiling  and
> > > starting the program aborts with this message:
> > > ** ERROR **: file proto.c: line 2565 (proto_register_field_init):
> > > assertion failed: (isalnum(c) || c == '-' || c == '_' || c == '.')
> > > aborting...
> > >      
>
> Wouldn't it sometimes be better to combine (or replace) some ASSERT statements with g_warning printouts that
> contains more detail about what is wrong?
>
> e.g. something like
>
> ** ERROR **: fieldname 'isdn callref' is not a valid fieldname
> ** ERROR **: file proto.c: line 2565 (proto_register_field_init):  assertion failed: (isalnum(c) || c == '-' || c == '_'
> || c == '.')
>  
I would really appreciate this, as it speeds up development and should 
be somewhat easy to do.

Regards, ULFL