From 0d385f730fd973a7e5087f457507dd2b445de58c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronnie_sahlberg@ozemail.com.au>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 01:56:01 +0000
Subject: add ep_tvb_get_string that acts the same as tvb_get_string   but the
 buffer returned need not be freed.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=15024
---
 epan/tvbuff.h | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'epan/tvbuff.h')

diff --git a/epan/tvbuff.h b/epan/tvbuff.h
index 2a038926d2..82c76a569d 100644
--- a/epan/tvbuff.h
+++ b/epan/tvbuff.h
@@ -410,6 +410,11 @@ extern gchar *tvb_format_stringzpad(tvbuff_t *tvb, gint offset, gint size);
  * Throws an exception if the tvbuff ends before the string does.
  */
 extern guint8 *tvb_get_string(tvbuff_t *tvb, gint offset, gint length);
+/* Same as above but the buffer returned from this function does not have to
+ * be freed. It will be automatically freed after the packet is dissected.
+ * Buffers allocated by this function are NOT persistent.
+ */
+extern guint8 *ep_tvb_get_string(tvbuff_t *tvb, gint offset, gint length);
 
 /**
  * Given a tvbuff and an offset, with the offset assumed to refer to
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