Not strictly necessary; mostly convenience. Decrementing the pointer usually requires doing the corresponding free, which really shouldn’t do anything but decrement the refcount if you just got it. -- -Todd Short // tsh...@akamai.com<mailto:tsh...@akamai.com> // "One if by land, two if by sea, three if by the Internet."
On Jun 20, 2016, at 12:18 PM, Rich Salz via RT <r...@openssl.org<mailto:r...@openssl.org>> wrote: Is this needed? Can your get0 function just call get and decrement the refcount? -- Ticket here: http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=3868 Please log in as guest with password guest if prompted -- Ticket here: http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=3868 Please log in as guest with password guest if prompted -- openssl-dev mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-dev
