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

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Mayer wrote:
> 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

Yup, that's the problem - it's not in ANSI C.  It'd have to be protected 
with

	#ifdef __GNUC__

and

	#endif

and it'd only give a warning if you compiled with GCC.  Perhaps some 
other compilers implement it and define something, so they could be 
added to the #ifdef.