Re: [openssl-dev] Backporting opaque struct getter/setter functions

[Peter Waltenberg]

The point of using accessor FUNCTIONS is that the code doesn't break if the structure size or offsets of fields in the underlying structures change across binaries.

Where that mainly has an impact is updating the crypto/ssl libs underneath existing binaries is more likely to just work.

#defines in the headers do not help at all here.


Peter


-----"openssl-dev" <openssl-dev-boun...@openssl.org> wrote: -----

To: openssl-dev@openssl.org
From: Richard Moore
Sent by: "openssl-dev"
Date: 01/10/2016 11:20AM
Subject: Re: [openssl-dev] Backporting opaque struct getter/setter functions

On 9 January 2016 at 22:45, Salz, Rich <rs...@akamai.com> wrote:

> required to perform many operations. What do people think about
> backporting those accessors into the 1.0.2 branch?

Another possibility is to have a just a single (new) header file that has #define's for the accessors that turn into raw structure access.

​That would not help anyone who needs function pointers.​

 

​Rich.

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