diff --git a/doc/README.developer b/doc/README.developer index 8f9add0065..4a2d8ac4bb 100644 --- a/doc/README.developer +++ b/doc/README.developer @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Id: README.developer,v 1.83 2003/10/28 05:49:29 guy Exp $ +$Id: README.developer,v 1.84 2003/10/28 05:50:52 guy Exp $ This file is a HOWTO for Ethereal developers. It describes how to start coding a Ethereal protocol dissector and the use some of the important functions and @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ code inside is needed only if you are using the "snprintf()" function. -The "$Id: README.developer,v 1.83 2003/10/28 05:49:29 guy Exp $" +The "$Id: README.developer,v 1.84 2003/10/28 05:50:52 guy Exp $" in the comment will be updated by CVS when the file is checked in; it will allow the RCS "ident" command to report which version of the file is currently checked out. @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ version of the file is currently checked out. * Routines for PROTONAME dissection * Copyright 2000, YOUR_NAME * - * $Id: README.developer,v 1.83 2003/10/28 05:49:29 guy Exp $ + * $Id: README.developer,v 1.84 2003/10/28 05:50:52 guy Exp $ * * Ethereal - Network traffic analyzer * By Gerald Combs @@ -1375,10 +1375,11 @@ These routines are used to add items to the protocol tree if either: The 'value' argument has the value to be added to the tree. -NOTE: in all cases where the argument is a pointer, a copy is made of -the object pointed to; if you have dynamically allocated a buffer for -the object, that buffer will not be freed when the protocol tree is -freed - you must free the buffer yourself when you don't need it any more. +NOTE: in all cases where the 'value' argument is a pointer, a copy is +made of the object pointed to; if you have dynamically allocated a +buffer for the object, that buffer will not be freed when the protocol +tree is freed - you must free the buffer yourself when you don't need it +any more. For proto_tree_add_bytes(), the 'value_ptr' argument is a pointer to a sequence of bytes.