Re: Global data in shareable library...

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: Dr S N Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

drh> I presume there isn't any issue within the library itself? That is the
drh> accessing of global variables within a shared library by other parts of
drh> it? 

Correct as far as I know.

drh> What this seems to boil down to is a problem when external
drh> applications want to access the internal stuff. This will currently only
drh> happen if they need to define their own ASN1 modules and access the
drh> library global variables as a result.

Ha!  We do dclare them publically in the exported header files, so
there's no reason to believe there won't be a madman somewhere
actually accessing them directly.

(yes, we might want to get into data hiding as well...)

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