Re: cvs commit: openssl/crypto/bio b_print.c

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: Bodo Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: openssl/crypto/bio b_print.c
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 12:32:55 +0200
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moeller> On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:52:20PM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
moeller> 
moeller> > Personally, I find USE_ALLOCATING_PRINT preferable, and would like
moeller> > that to be the default.  Comments?
moeller> 
moeller> That should be OK, although I think that it should be changed to use
moeller> the stack if the space requirement is small.  (Appliations that print
moeller> many small strings often will have quite a lot of overhead otherwise,
moeller> especially in multi-threaded settings with memory debugging enabled.)

Let me verify that I got this right: you would like it to use an
initial buffer (an array on the stack), and start using the heap only
if the output is too large for the initial buffer.  That shold be
doable.

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