In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:07:56 +0100, Andy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
appro> > and other details I'm not aware of. I've heard appro> > suggestions of creating several variants of the OpenSSL libraries that appro> > would be used in parallell with the different MSVC libraries, and appro> > that's where a naming convention is becoming even more important. appro> appro> I'd say that we should rather strive for being more like USER32 or any appro> other system component, i.e. being MT-safe and neutral to any particular appro> compiler run-time environment. That would be great, so how does one do that? appro> > Added to this problem, we have the different register sizes on appro> > different CPUs (32-bit, 64-bit, and whatever will follow), which seems appro> > to be difficult to intermix in the same library, appro> ^^^^^^^^^??? It's impossible. I wasn't ready to use such a terminal word. appro> You can't intermix 64- and 32-bit objects in same library nor appro> in address space of any particular process. Well, the latter appro> is possible from hardware point of view, but it requires kernel appro> support and there is no any [as far as I know]. Naming appro> convention for 32- vs. 64-bit objects is provided rather appro> through search pathes [at both link- and run-time], than name appro> of the object module per se. Good point. ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte \ Tunnlandsvägen 3 \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ S-168 36 BROMMA \ T: +46-8-26 52 47 \ SWEDEN \ or +46-708-26 53 44 Procurator Odiosus Ex Infernis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the OpenSSL development team: http://www.openssl.org/ Unsolicited commercial email is subject to an archival fee of $400. See <http://www.stacken.kth.se/~levitte/mail/> for more info. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
