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authorJaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xs4all.nl>2006-02-24 21:54:54 +0000
committerJaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xs4all.nl>2006-02-24 21:54:54 +0000
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downloadwireshark-6a8533fbb05e7e3f6db016463e0b94a8ae0702cd.tar.gz
Remove obsolete document README.tvbuff
svn path=/trunk/; revision=17401
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@@ -899,7 +899,7 @@ dissect_PROTOABBREV(tvbuff_t *tvb, packet_info *pinfo, proto_tree *tree);
1.4.2 Extracting data from packets.
-NOTE: See the README.tvbuff file for more details
+NOTE: See the tvbuff.h file for more details
The "tvb" argument to a dissector points to a buffer containing the raw
data to be analyzed by the dissector; for example, for a protocol
@@ -1015,10 +1015,12 @@ Copies into the specified target the specified length's worth of data
from the specified tvbuff, starting at the specified offset.
guint8* tvb_memdup(tvbuff_t*, gint offset, gint length);
+guint8* ep_tvb_memdup(tvbuff_t*, gint offset, gint length);
Returns a buffer, allocated with "g_malloc()", containing the specified
length's worth of data from the specified tvbuff, starting at the
-specified offset.
+specified offset. The ephemeral variant is freed automatically after the
+packet is dissected.
Pointer-retrieval:
/* WARNING! This function is possibly expensive, temporarily allocating