Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Don't release: Console warnings with latest changes in prefs.

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:02:33 -0500
That was my doing.  It was intended to fix a bug found by Steve Grubb:

http://bugs.ethereal.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=217

The GStrings weren't being initialized properly.  It should be fixed now.

Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Hi List!
> 
> Someone change the implementation in epan/prefs.c read_prefs_file(),
> using a GString() with a strange init method.
> 
> This causes:
> 
> 08:54:14          Warn C:\Documents and Settings\...\Application
> Data\Etherea
> l\recent line 1: Incomplete preference (saving your preferences once
> should remo
> ve this warning)
> 08:54:17          Warn C:\Documents and Settings\...\Application
> Data\Etherea
> l\recent line 1: Incomplete preference (saving your preferences once
> should remo
> ve this warning)
> 
> and probably misbehaving recent settings.
> 
> Please don't release in the current state.
> 
> I'm not able to have a look at this till thursday (being on a short trip),
> 
> Regards, ULFL
> 
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