Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] My plugin worked with 0.10.10 but notwith0.10.11(Windows dll)

["Oren Mazor" <oren.mazor@xxxxxxxxx>]

the catch is that i did rebuild for ethereal 10.11 and the problem remains.

i'll double check my symbolic links.

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 12:04:52 -0400, Lars Ruoff <Lars.Ruoff@xxxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:

> There is no fix other than recompiling your plugin for 0.10.11 (or going
> back to Ethereal 0.10.10).
>
> The problem is that your dissector is expecting a different layout of  
> some
> proto.h structure compared to what ethereal 0.10.11 is actually passing  
> him
> along.
> so *ptr->p_id (or any other field of that sturcture) is now referencing
> another part of memory from that structure.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Oren Mazor" <oren.mazor@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Ethereal development" <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 5:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] My plugin worked with 0.10.10 but
> notwith0.10.11(Windows dll)
>
>
> > On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:25:08 -0400, Lars Ruoff <Lars.Ruoff@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >> Indeed. I just updated to 11 on a production box and my dissector's
> > >> failing pretty valiantly on line 2767 of proto.c
> > >>
> > >> DISSECTOR_ASSERT(*ptr->p_id == -1 || *ptr->p_id == 0)
> > >>
> > >> just when i actually really needed it to work...
> > >>
> > >> dont think that's very related to the problem at hand, no?
> > >
> > > Yes, it is!
> > >
> >
> > super! is there a [quick, or not so much] fix? other than hunting for a
> > 0.10.10 rpm?
> >
> > I'm trying to track down what's happening here, and what field is not -1
> > or 0 when it gets to that point...
> >
> > >
> > >> On 6/21/05, Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >> > Gerald,
> > >> >
> > >> > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 03:46:29PM +0200, Lars Ruoff wrote:
> > >> > > Plugins (at least on Windows) have become binary-incompatible
> > >> between
> > >> > > 0.10.10 and 0.10.11 .
> > >> > > I warned about that in
> > >> > > http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/200505/msg00015.html,
> but
> > > it
> > >> > > didn't get much attention.
> > >> >
> > >> > I think this should also go into the news file. Incompatible  
> > changes
> > >> to
> > >> > the command line (remove, changed parameters) should also be noted.
> > >> >
> > >> > Thanks
> > >> >        Joerg
> > >> > --
> > >> > Joerg Mayer
> > >> <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >> > We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff
> > >> that
> > >> > works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
> > >> >
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> >
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