Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-cvs] rev 15994: /trunk/epan/dissectors/: packet-fcp

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 09:17:51 -0700
sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

 there is a HUGE number of these kinds of very ugly bitmap dissection

Should there be an API for dissecting fields containing bitfields, which will update the top-level item for the field as it's putting entries underneath that for the bitfield? (It might have an option to keep some bitfields from being put into the top-level item, to keep that item from being too long.)