> From: Salz, Rich, Wednesday, November 30, 2016 9:38 AM > > > We're moving up to OpenSSL 1.0.2j from OpenSSL 0.9.8<something>, and > > noticed that the SSL functions based on SSL_ctrl() changed from returning > > type int to returning type long. > > The "proper" answer is to not use long, but rather sized types, which we are > slowly moving toward.
Funny you should mention this, because this topic arose internally after someone decided to change the return type of SSL_ctrl() to intprt_t. I have no idea why, since as far as I can tell, all of the return values would fit in a 32-bit integer; thus my question about why it was changed to long, which is either 32 bits or 64 bits, depending on platform. I suspect it was the use of long that tricked someone into thinking it might be holding a pointer, and thus led to the change to intptr_t, so it would fit on Windows. (Blind/stupid global replacement.) (Does OpenSSL support any platform in which type int is 16 bits?) Thanks, Mark -- openssl-users mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-users
