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What is the meaning of HFILL in proto_register?

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While creating any plugin we have to register into wireshark. There is one method called proto_register_XXX() in this method predefined structure is used.in that one argument is HFILL . What is the meaning of that???

asked 23 Dec '14, 02:22

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HFILL is a macro which expands to some additional fields that are necessary for bookkeeping. You can find the definition in epan/proto.h:

/**
 * HFILL initializes all the "set by proto routines" fields in a
 * _header_field_info. If new fields are added or removed, it should
 * be changed as necessary.
 */
#define HFILL -1, 0, HF_REF_TYPE_NONE, -1, NULL

answered 23 Dec '14, 03:41

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