Re: cvs commit: openssl/crypto/bn bn.hbn_exp.cbn_exp2.cbn_gcd.cbn_lib.c bn_mont.c bn_mul.c bn_prime.cbn_recp.cbn_shift.cbn_sqr.cbntest.c

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

ben> This is why I said what we have is really a mutable, but you can't say
ben> that in C (its a C++ concept). But the central point is that having
ben> "const" in an API is a promise not to modify the parameter - its
ben> completely pointless to make that promise and then break it!
ben> Furthermore, doing so will (potentially) result in incorrect code being
ben> generated by the compiler. I simply don't see why it is elegant to claim
ben> that something is const when it is not!!

What is your suggestion we do?  (I think I've asked for suggestions a
number of times now, and even laid out the alternatives as I saw them)

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