Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] proto_field_is_referenced

[Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 02:23:54PM -0500, mmann78@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I was leaning more towards useless because I can't think of a scenario where tree (is already) != NULL, yet a dissector would be called without having its proto field referenced.

I don't understand this. For example 'frame.*', 'ip.*' is not referenced, still frame and ip dissector must be called because 'tcp.*' might be refereced. Could you elaborate?

Kuba.