Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 8472] Add support for collectd's high-resolution times.
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 01:08:22 +0000

Comment # 11 on bug 8472 from
(In reply to comment #10)
> The problem with creating a value_string64 (or similar solutions) is that it
> seems reasonable for a set of value_strings to be shared between a fields of
> different sizes (uint8 through uint64) and doing that would require two
> copies of the value_string: one for uint64 and one for all the others.

What about adding new mask for field ->display: BASE_VALUE64_STRING which
informs it's 64 bit value_string?

> I did a quick check of the memory cost of just making all value-strings
> 64-bit (basically s/32/64/ in value_string.[ch]): libwireshark.so grew by
> only about 60KB. 

Yeah, cause on 64 bits arch there's already 4B padding between value and
strptr,

> I'm not sure if this would have a performance impact on
> 32-bit systems (I don't have one handy to test) 
> but if it's not too bad then this is probably the simplest solution.

I'd worry more about sign extension :-)


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