Re: Using TCHAR with pcap and sockets (send/recv/setsockopt)

From:
Rayne <lancer6238@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:22:45 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<d30ce88e-544a-4542-9d26-0a62fc086da2@t34g2000prm.googlegroups.com>
On Feb 9, 5:35 pm, "Alex Blekhman" <tkfx.REM...@yahoo.com> wrote:

"Rayne" wrote:

Thank you for all the suggestions.

I'm trying to use the A2T macro for my pcap_loop callback
function "got_packet".

So I have

void got_packet(u_char *cuser, const struct pcap_pkthdr *header,
const
u_char *cpacket)
{
  _TUCHAR *user, *packet;
  user = A2T(cuser);
  packet = A2T(cpacket);
  ...
}


Well, it seems you've ignored my other post even though it
describes your case. I looked up the `pcap_loop' function and it
seems that you don't need any conversions at all. The type
`u_char' is used as a substitute for a byte, i.e. actual data is
binary.

Alex


Sorry, I must have missed your post.

So after reading all the suggestions, I think that my initial approach
is wrong, in that I simply tried to convert all char and char * to
TCHAR.

So under what circumstances would I need the conversion, besides when
using string functions like strlen and strcat, APIs that have the A/W
versions and filenames longer than MAX_PATH characters?

Thank you.

Regards,
Rayne

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