On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:40:44AM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
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> On Dec 17, 2010, at 12:37 AM, Hoang Thang wrote:
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> > I am seeing the source code of Wireshark and confuse what
> > BASE_DEC_HEX and BASE_HEX_DEC are. Why don't we use only BASE_HEX or
> > BASE_DEC ?
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> Because, for whatever reason, some people want the value of a numeric
> field displayed in both hexadecimal and decimal.
... and BASE_DEC_HEX displays the decimal then the hexadecimal in
parentheses, while BASE_HEX_DEC does the opposite.
For example:
BASE_DEC_HEX: 126 (0x7e)
BASE_HEX_DEC: 0x7e (126)
