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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] BItfields Larger than 32 Bits

From: "Shanks, Graham (UK)" <graham.shanks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 08:36:08 +0000
On 13 May 2014 22:08, Kevin Cox <kevincox@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My best idea would be to parse it as two separate 32 bit bitfields however this is not as elegant

The problem with parsing  it as two 32bit bitfields is if, as in my case, a field straddles the 32bit boundary. There is no nice way to extract such a field. I went down the path of not using bitfields at all and using proto_tree_add_text.

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Graham (aka  GrahamS)

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