Re: [ethereal-dev] plugins support

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Or, as an alternative, we could handle expressions that do an equality
> comparison on certain fields specially - have a "proto.c" routine that
> can check whether a dfilter expression checks if a particular field
> (specified by its name, or by its index) is equal to a constant and, if
> so, returns the constant, and, if the expression is, say "tcp.port ==
> 666", we could just have TCP check for that port number (by checking in
> a list, or looking it up in a hash table, or...).

It should also treat expressions that just do an OR of multiple such
simple comparisons of the field in question against a constant specially
- you'd add all the constants to the list of ports.