RFC: sorted value_string + bsearch

[Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames () darkjames ath cx>]

Hi,

In wireshark there are some large value_string arrays.
Some developers keep them sorted, some don't :)

Dissectors in which value_string are sorted could be a little faster
thanks to binary search.

In attachment patch to introduce new 'fast' functions for value_string.

Can this patch be commited? I don't know if I will have time to rewrite dissectors.
Some time later it should be also possible to get rid of (hated) value_string NULL terminator. 


I'm also attaching sample dns_types rewrite.

Cheers.

Attachment: strval-bsearch.patch
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