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When building a dissector: How to declare an error?

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Hey, I'm building a dissector and I would like to know if it is possible to explicitly declare about errors. for example: If something's length should be 0, but it doesn't, then I want to say "error, something is wrong"

Thanks ahead.

asked 06 Dec '12, 02:15

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Thanks to "SidR", You should take the following line, and do variations on him. (remember to include epan/expert.h )

expert_add_info_format(pinfo, acp_data_tree, PI_MALFORMED, PI_WARN, "Length > 0");

answered 06 Dec '12, 02:58

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You're welcome. :)

(06 Dec '12, 03:06) SidR