Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] Expert "name" field in same name space as hf[] "abbrev" field ?

[Bill Meier <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Since both the ei_register_info "'name' field and the hf_register_info 
'abbrev' field can be used as filters I expect that they effectively are 
in the same name space and thus there should not be a matching 
'name'/'abbrev' between the ei[] entries and the hf[] entries in a 
dissector.

Is this correct ?

If so, I would have expected matching entries (ei[] 'name' vs hf[] 
'abbrev') to have been detected and rejected.

AFAIKT, matching entries ('name"/"abbrev') apparently aren't being 
rejected.  (See  packet-mausb.c).


Thoughts ?

Bill