Jeremy Hylton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

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> There are a lot of struct and function declarations that define
> function pointers without parameter specifications.  These are
> problematic on several grounds, no least of which is the anal goal we
> have of making Python compile without any warnings :-).  If the
> declarations were prototypes, it would also improve argument checking
> and coercion on subsequent calls.  It would also make the code a bit
> easier to read.  I did a cursory review of a few calls and found it
> hard to tell what the arguments to these functions should be.
> 
> Is there any intent to make these function declarations into
> prototypes in a future version of OpenSSL?  If I wanted to contribute
> patches, would that be a good idea?  (or a bad idea either for
> technical or political reasons?)

Please take a look at current 0.9.7-dev snaphot versions of OpenSSL.
Many prototypes have already been added.  If you can easily add
prototype declarations that are still missing, then your patches
certainly are welcome.
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