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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] BER ASN1 generated dissectors update?

From: "Graeme Lunt" <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:04:25 +0200
Anders,

> I would like help to look at the following:
>
> With the current asn2wrs it should be possible to generate (most) dissectors
> without any changes to
>
> The original ASN1 files and options –X and –T should be used.
>
> The minimum effort should be to use option –X and –T, when the –T option is
> used "tagged types" should be handled and workarounds in ASN1 files or .cnf
> can be removed.

Just to be clear, could you give an example of the type of
"workarounds" that can be removed from each of these two locations?

> The ambitious could try to use unchanged ASN1 files. It would be good if we
> could get the "easy" ones out of the way at least.
>
> The following asn1 directories Needs an update.

I'll take a look at the following:

DAP
DISP
[DOP?]
DSP
ROS
RTSE
S4406
X411
X420

Graeme