Camp, TracyX E wrote: > > I really didn't hear much back on this topic, but what I did hear seemed > to support the approach I have been taking thus far. Please see my > previous message in this thread for the details. > > So in hopes of moving this topic along in a practical sense, I have > attached two patches that implement all the macro to function conversion > that I believe would be necessary to support OpenSSL ABI stability from > an LSB perspective going forward by allowing applications to always > treat OpenSSL data structures as opaque types. > > One patch is against the released OpenSSL 0.9.8d and another is against > the development snapshot from October 16th. > > As far as I can tell, these conversions should not present any sort of > noticeable performance impact since they are almost all related to > protocol setup in some manner. I also believe the changes should not > impact binary compatibility with applications that where build using the > macro versions of these routines. Where possible I've also attempted to > preserve the coding style in use. > > To get OpenSSL into the LSB either a different approach would need to be > proposed, or some form of the attached patches would need to make it > into an OpenSSL release, followed by a significant number of Linux > distributions picking up that release or later. There is an upcoming > early next-year LSB 3.2 release that potentially could be the release > vehicle for OpenSSL in LSB. > > Comments, etc. welcomed.
I'm very much in favour of this. One comment, though - if you're going to make structure opaque, then why not make them truly opaque by removing their definitions from the public headers? > > Thanks, > > Tracy Camp -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.links.org/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
