Personally I prefer ENC_NA for single-byte. Some dissectors can mix
endianess, like file-elf. What use in case like that?
Maybe there is a need to add something new like ENC_NO_ENDIAN?
(ENC_HOST_ENDIAN?)
That can be used to fetch value that is always in host endian (magic number?)
By the way: I use ENC_NA to improve readability too. I take a quick
look and see my single-byte field, where around is a lot of multibyte
fields.
About copy-paste bugs: now there is a guard like Petri-Dish/pre-commit.
On 15 December 2014 at 01:43, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/14/2014 03:03 PM, Bill Meier wrote:
>>
>> 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 ?
>
>
> We discussed this some time ago; the consensus at the time seemed to be use
> ENC_*_ENDIAN for 1-byte fields:
>
> https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201107/msg00404.html
>
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