Dr S N Henson wrote:
>
> Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> >
> > And oh, you may not have noticed, but the unconstification carried to
> > a couple of other places. One of them is in the ASN.1 macros, but if
> > I understood Stephen right, the new ASN.1 code he's working on will
> > take away that problem (Stephen, I'd like to hear you confirm or deny
> > this, so I actually know).
>
> Yes. It should make it possible to have a truly constant input buffer in
> the d2i functions. However in order to handle the replacement in stages
> it will have to make a temporary copy of the data when it calls and old
> style d2i function. That shouldn't have any efficiency issues because
> when the lot is replaced there wont be any old style d2i's in the
> library any more.
>
> It will also blow away all the old ASN1 macros: basically just about
> everything in asn1_mac.h
Hoorah!
Cheers,
Ben.
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