Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] win32 memory violation

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From: aferen@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Andrew C. Feren)
Date: 24 Jan 2002 15:48:34 -0500
Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > It is getting called from a plugin.  Here is the stack trace.
> 
> It may be picking up plugins from an older version of Ethereal.
> 
> On Windows, recent versions of Ethereal look for plugins in the
> "plugins/<version>" subdirectory of the directory in which the
> executable resides; in 0.9.0, and in the current version of Ethereal,
> "<version>" is 0.9.0.
> 
> It may be that there's a binary incompatibility in the plugin interface
> between current CVS version of Ethereal and the 0.9.0 version, so 0.9.0
> plugins may crash when run with current-CVS ethereal (and *vice versa*).

This appears to have been the case.  

Thanks.

-- 
-Andrew Feren
 Cetacean Networks, Inc.
 Portsmouth, NH