Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] GDK data types in dissectors?

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From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 01:20:08 -0500
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 04:52:50PM -0600, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 15:38:04 -0500
> Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am making some modifications to packet-giop.c, and one day
> > I may actually finish. ;)
> > 
> > Is it acceptable coding style to use GDK data types in
> > Ethereal dissectors, such as guint8, etc.?  It's not a big deal
> > to me, but I thought it might be a good idea to insure the size
> > of certain data types in some cases, especially if someone tries
> > to compile Ethereal on a 64-bit platform.
> 
> Absolutely. We use them all over the place. But they're neither GDK
> nor GTK data types; they come from glib, which is just a C utility
> library. It is GUI-agnostic.

OK, would it disturb Ethereal-ity if I use a GString?
That is part of glib, and would be useful to me.
-- 
Craig Rodrigues        
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