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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Moving codecs to libwireshark or libwsutil?

From: Bálint Réczey <balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 11:06:21 +0100
2015-12-02 21:25 GMT+01:00 Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx>:
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> 2015-11-30 20:15 GMT+01:00 Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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>> On Nov 30, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx>
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>> > Yes I should have been clearer in my initial description.
>> > My suggestion with an extra parameter giving the hash table address is
>> > also working fine, so I do not have a strong feeling either way (the changed
>> > parameter is faster to do but might not be the best long term solution).
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>> Unless there's some compelling reason for them *not* to be in a dynamic
>> library, I think making libcodec a dynamic library the best long-term
>> solution.
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>> > If possible I would like to have this fixed for Wireshark 2.0.1 but I
>> > wonder if such change is compatible with our usual policy to keep APIs
>> > constant (does it apply when they are buggy?).
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>> Making it a dynamic library wouldn't change the API.
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> Done: https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/12385/1
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Balint