Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2006, Ben Laurie wrote: > >> But it gets cast back to the correct type before it is called. These >> casts are done the way they are to get type-safety. Removing that option >> strikes me as a bad thing. >> > > Yes and that happened to be a way that worked on all the compilers OpenSSL > used at the time. > > The main purpose of the casting it to provide type safe checking at compile > time and have no runtime overhead. > > If there is an alternative to achieve the same result (inline calls perhaps?) > then we can have that as a compilation option.
Sure, I have no objection to replacing the kludge. So long as we don't lose compile-time type-safety. -- 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]
