Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Another RedHat fix

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:53:58PM +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> Looking thourgh specflies it found the following patch in RedHats Fedora:
> 
> RedHat/Fedora ethereal.spec:
>  * Mon Jun 14 2004 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch@xxxxxxxxxx> 0.10.4-2
>  - Include ia64 segfault patch (#113726).
> 
> diff -rU4 -N ethereal-0.10.0a/epan/proto.c ethereal-0.10.0a-ia64-segfault.patch/epan/proto.c
> --- ethereal-0.10.0a/epan/proto.c	2003-12-06 13:46:55.000000000 -0500
> +++ ethereal-0.10.0a-ia64-segfault.patch/epan/proto.c	2004-03-04 16:31:31.000000000 -0500
> @@ -1975,9 +1975,9 @@
>  	}
>  
>  	FIELD_INFO_NEW(fi);
>  
> -	fi->hfinfo = hfinfo;
> +	fi->hfinfo = gpa_hfinfo.hfi[hfindex];
>  	fi->start = start;
>  	fi->start+=(tvb)?TVB_RAW_OFFSET(tvb):0;
>  	fi->length = *length;
>  	fi->tree_type = -1;
> 
> As I failed to understand what it does and as the RedHat bugzilla doesn't
> allow anonymous access to this bug: Can anyone explain to ma what this
> fix does (aka why it is necessary)?

I can't, given the way the macro works, unless, somehow, the
"g_assert()" fails, or the C preprocessor fails on IA-64.

I tried logging in to Bugzilla, and they won't let me look at the bug,
either; Phil, what is the reason for that change?