Re: [Wireshark-dev] tvb_length_remaining() and tvb_reported_length_remaining()

[Christopher Maynard <Christopher.Maynard () gtech com>]

Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@...> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 04:10:53PM +0000, Christopher Maynard wrote:
> > Would replacement functions help here which would return an out-of-bounds 
> > error
> > in one of their arguments, so that things would look instead something like:
> >
> > len2 = tvb_length_remaining_new(tvb, offset, &error);
> > if (error == TBD)
> >   return offset;
>
> Can this new function throw exception when offset is out of bounds?

Possibly, but I was under the impression that these type of functions were used
when you specifically wanted to know how much data remains, if any, w/out
throwing an exception if the offset happened to be out of bounds?


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