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diff --git a/doc/README.developer b/doc/README.developer index 7e81034081..fbea07c725 100644 --- a/doc/README.developer +++ b/doc/README.developer @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ which will be defined as the appropriate types for 64-bit signed and unsigned integers. When printing or displaying the values of 64-bit integral data types, -don't assume use "%lld", "%llu", "%llx", or "%llo" - not all platforms +don't use "%lld", "%llu", "%llx", or "%llo" - not all platforms support "%ll" for printing 64-bit integral data types. Instead, for GLib routines, and routines that use them, such as all the routines in Wireshark that take format arguments, use G_GINT64_MODIFIER, for example: @@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ as usual in your code. 1.1.3 Robustness. Wireshark is not guaranteed to read only network traces that contain correctly- -formed packets. Wireshark is commonly used is to track down networking +formed packets. Wireshark is commonly used to track down networking problems, and the problems might be due to a buggy protocol implementation sending out bad packets. @@ -1022,7 +1022,7 @@ This is only needed if the dissector doesn't use self-registration to register itself with the lower level dissector, or if the protocol dissector wants/needs to expose code to other subdissectors. -The dissector must declared as exactly as follows in the file +The dissector must be declared exactly as follows in the file packet-PROTOABBREV.h: int @@ -1036,9 +1036,9 @@ NOTE: See the file /epan/tvbuff.h 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 running atop UDP, it contains the UDP payload (but not the UDP header, -or any protocol headers above it). A tvbuffer is a opaque data +or any protocol headers above it). A tvbuffer is an opaque data structure, the internal data structures are hidden and the data must be -access via the tvbuffer accessors. +accessed via the tvbuffer accessors. The accessors are: @@ -1116,7 +1116,7 @@ guint8 *tvb_get_stringz(tvbuff_t *tvb, gint offset, gint *lengthp); guint8 *tvb_get_ephemeral_stringz(tvbuff_t *tvb, gint offset, gint *lengthp); Returns a null-terminated buffer, allocated with "g_malloc()", -containing data from the specified tvbuff, starting with at the +containing data from the specified tvbuff, starting at the specified offset, and containing all characters from the tvbuff up to and including a terminating null character in the tvbuff. "*lengthp" will be set to the length of the string, including the terminating null. @@ -1172,7 +1172,7 @@ guint8* tvb_get_ptr(tvbuff_t*, gint offset, gint length); The reason that tvb_get_ptr() might have to allocate a copy of its data only occurs with TVBUFF_COMPOSITES, data that spans multiple tvbuffers. -If the user request a pointer to a range of bytes that spans the member +If the user requests a pointer to a range of bytes that spans the member tvbuffs that make up the TVBUFF_COMPOSITE, the data will have to be copied to another memory region to assure that all the bytes are contiguous. |