RE: OpenSSL nasty shared library issue...

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: "Salz, Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

SalzR> Not if you want to maintain portable code, you can't.

No entirely true.  It's very possible to use, if you make sure you
have a standard replacement alloca() for those architecture that don't
have it.  alloca() is becoming more widespred...

SalzR> I am concerned that "we'll just always malloc" not
SalzR> become the standard behavior.  This will lead to
SalzR> memory fragmentation, etc., and ultimately poor
SalzR> performance in long-running servers.

There are other solutions, then, like keeping memory pools to make
sure we don't get that kind of fragmentation.  That will require some
extra work, however...

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