Re: [Wireshark-commits] master 7b7dd1e: Don't use -1 as the length of an integer.

[Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com>]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:
> On Aug 18, 2014, at 12:46 PM, Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Guy, how are you finding these last four or five API abuses? Do you
> > have some sort of super-checkAPIs or are you just doing a lot of
> > manual code review?
>
> No, and not exactly.
>
> I have my regression script, which I was using to check whether I'd broken anything with the X11 changes; it runs two 
> versions of tshark against a file, and compares the results.  It runs against a big collection of captures, including 
> the menagerie used for fuzz testing.
>
> It *also* captures the standard error of tshark in both cases, and reports it regardless of whether it's different or 
> not, so it catches dissector bug messages.

Hmm - should the fuzz script raise an error when it detects anything
on stderr? We'd probably catch a lot of things that way.

> I then do the code review on the dissectors that are issuing bug messages.
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