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

From: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 00:58:45 +0200
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 06:53:42PM +0200, Jakub Zawadzki wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 08:31:02PM +0200, Jakub Zawadzki wrote:
> > Removed in v2:
> > 
> > http://www.wireshark.org/~darkjames/proto-new-v2/0001-changes.txt
> > http://www.wireshark.org/~darkjames/proto-new-v2/0002-rewrite.txt
> > 
> > Changes from v1:
> >  - proto_tree_add_item() now takes pointer to header_field_info *, 
> >    if NEW_PROTO_TREE_API NOT defined small compatilibity macro is used.
> >  - convert names just to hfi_ not hfi_hf_
> >  - fix proto_get_first_protocol_field(), proto_get_next_protocol_field()
> 
> Ping, any feedback?

Ok, commited some work based on v2

HFI_INIT for now is just placeholder (to not modify again lots of lines),
later it'll expand to something like: __attribute__((section("_data_hfi_" #proto))) (for gcc/clang),
which will allow to #ifndef hfi[] arrays.

This should also obsolete checkhf.pl cause (at least !windows) compilers will do a check.

I'm not 100% sure how portable __start_section, __stop_section is[1] so
I just need to write some autotools scriptz. Don't know when.

[1] sample how to use __start, __stop: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3808053/how-to-get-a-pointer-to-a-binary-section-in-msvc
    (this is good sample for gcc/clang, I don't know how to do it properly on MSVC).