Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Banish ALL kinds of g_assert from epan (dissector) code?

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gerald Combs wrote:
> Ulf Lamping wrote:
>
>
> > It's not that I don't want to fix bugs (I'm doing that continuously for
> > the time being), but IMHO it's more important to have a non crashing
> > Ethereal than to fix the bugs.
> >
> > Single packets marked as [Dissector Bug] will be much more user friendly
> > than a crash because of a g_assert().
> >
> > Any objections against this?
>
>
> Sounds good to me.

The buildbot dissection tests should probably check for "Dissector bug" 
messages in the standard error (I'm assuming that g_warning() writes its 
output to the standard error; if not, it'd have to check for that in the 
standard output), so that if a dissector bug is found, it'll get reported.