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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 34796: /trunk/gtk/ /trunk/gtk/: main

From: Alexander Koeppe <format_c@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:07:48 +0100
Jakub Zawadzki schrieb:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:32:09PM +0100, Stig Bj?rlykke wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 4:25 PM,  <etxrab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Log:
>>>  From Alexander Koeppe:
>>>  Patch that fixes overflowing highlighting of data.
>>>  https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5374
> 
> Btw. should get_byte_view_data_and_length() return tvb_reported_length()?
> 
> If yes, I'd vote for checking against 'len' in packet_hex_print():
>    if (aend != -1 && (guint)aend > len) aend = len;
>    if (bend != -1 && (guint)bend > len) bend = len;
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Hey yes, this way is much more efficient as it doesn't utilize any extra
function call. The trick is to place this check just before storing
values in the bv-gobject.

Please go and hand in a patch for that and please put me on the CC list.