Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Can I prevent a called dissector from changing the summary wi

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From: Jeff Rizzo <riz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:51:32 -0700
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 03:45:54PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:20:23PM -0700, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> 
> > I can certainly do that, but the comments in the example made me
> > concerned about performance.
> 
> Yes, that means the dissector needs to do more work even when not
> generating the protocol tree, but getting the right answer more slowly
> is better than getting the wrong answer more quickly here.

OK, thanks for the information;  it actually makes part of my
job easier anyway.   I'll change it to do the dissection even
without the protocol tree.

+j

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Jeff Rizzo                                         http://boogers.sf.ca.us/~riz