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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] master f412c9a: Use ENC_BIG_ENDIAN when

From: Anders Broman <a.broman58@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 21:21:57 +0100


Den 14 dec 2014 21:03 skrev "Bill Meier" <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> On 12/14/2014 2:22 PM, Stephen Fisher wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 01:44:19PM -0500, Bill Meier wrote:
>>
>>> That being said, the convention (certainly not enforced) seems to be
>>> to use ENC_..._ENDIAN for fetching all integral types.
>>
>>
>> Could this be related to when we made the change from using FALSE / TRUE
>> to specify if its "big endian" in things like proto_tree_add_item() ?
>
>
>
> Good point !
>
> fix-encoding-args.pl (used to do the change) just converted FALSE|0 to BIG_ENDIAN and etc, so the "convention" actually kind-of-happened because previously TRUE|1 or FALSE|0 were the only choices for the 'encoding-arg".
>
> So, I stand corrected.
>
> Maybe what I should be doing is converting all the single-byte fetches to use ENC_NA.
>
> Thoughts ?
>
> Bill
>
>

To me using the same endianess as beeing used for other integers in the dissector would make the most sense.
Regards
Anders

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