Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Remove hf_ variables

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 29, 2013, at 1:12 PM, Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is anyone attached to hf_ variables? ;)
> 
> There's no real need of them, and we can just replace them with
> header_field_info structure.

I.e., pass a pointer to the relevant structure, rather than an array index into an internal array that can supply that pointer?

I'm not sure there's a compelling reason (other than the effort involved in converting code) to keep the variables.