Re: dissecting bits versus bytes

[Ankith Agarwal <ankitha () cdac in>]

Hi

> > I found these routines in the wireshark.README file:
> >
> > guint8 tvb_get_bits8(tvbuff_t *tvb, gint bit_offset, gint no_of_bits);
> > guint16 tvb_get_bits16(tvbuff_t *tvb, gint bit_offset, gint 
> > no_of_bits,gboolean little_endian);
> > guint32 tvb_get_bits32(tvbuff_t *tvb, gint bit_offset, gint 
> > no_of_bits,gboolean little_endian);
> > guint64 tvb_get_bits64(tvbuff_t *tvb, gint bit_offset, gint 
> > no_of_bits,gboolean little_endian);
> >
> > Is there a way to get a String...??

The tvb pointer which is present in the context is an array of
characters..indirectly a string.. so, you can copy the values of tvb into
a local string variable...(don't forget to get the size of the string)

> > The string that I have ends with a special value of 0xFF ......

if this is the case you can copy a character and loop it till the
condition of 0xFF doesn't satisfy...

> > string it's self has a bit_offset
> > that is determined at runtime. How do I read this..??

You can work out from the previous mails, on how to read a bit_offset...

> > Also...I have a series of bits fields that span bytes....is there an 
> > example out there where somebody already dissected
> > a stream of bits not bytes..??
> >
> > For example:  How would I dissect an 18 bit field that starts at an 
> > offset of 2 bits..?
You cannot dissect the bit fields directly... you have to take the largest
container of it and the put a mask to obtain the values...
As for your example... for 18 bit field, just get the next power of 2 ie,
32 and put the mask, or do an and operation with
(11111111111111111100000000000000) 0xFFFFC000, and you will be extract
your 18 bits into a local variable... Then by further processing you can
get your bit fields dissected completely...

Regards
Ankith

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