Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Deprecating asn1.[hc]

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

IIRC there was a discussion a while ago that asn1.[hc] should not be used
any more for new projects and that one day dissectors using the old interface
should be migrated. How about adding a #warning to asn1.h telling potential
users about this?

It might go like this, but I don't know about portability and whether you
like the idea of getting the warning for the existing dissectors too:

--- asn1.h      (revision 12132)
+++ asn1.h      (working copy)
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@
 #ifndef __ASN1_H__
 #define __ASN1_H__

+#warning "The use of asn1.[hc] is deprecated. Please consider using the new API in packet-ber.[hc]"
+
 #define ASN1_UNI       0     /* Universal   */
 #define ASN1_APL       1     /* Application */
 #define ASN1_CTX       2     /* Context     */


 Ciao
    Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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