Re: ASN1 query...

2000-11-11 Thread Rich Salz
So with that in mind, is there a good reason to try and have this functionality (but working this time!) in the new ASN1 code or should any existing structure be freed and a new one freshly allocate? Are refcounts on the ASN1 objects or higher-level? How do you handle overwrite if the

Re: ASN1 query...

2000-11-11 Thread Dr S N Henson
Rich Salz wrote: So with that in mind, is there a good reason to try and have this functionality (but working this time!) in the new ASN1 code or should any existing structure be freed and a new one freshly allocate? Are refcounts on the ASN1 objects or higher-level? How do you

Re: ASN1 query...

2000-11-10 Thread Dr S N Henson
Dr S N Henson wrote: Now since I've never heard a report of this problem I can only assume hardly anyone uses this parameter. Fixing the existing code is a very painful task and the only advice that can be given is don't use that parameter! There's another case I've just realised that

ASN1 query...

2000-11-10 Thread Dr S N Henson
Does anyone reuse the (type **) parameter to the ASN1 functions and friends (such as PEM)? As many of you may know I'm currently revising the OpenSSL code and I'm seeing what features are used and which should be dumped or fixed. The parameter is one case where there is a feature which is