On Wed, Apr 01, 2009, Rene Hollan wrote: > Are there any hard and fast rules regarding which openssl functions allocate > memory which they expect the caller to then manage and which ones just return > a pointer to an existing structure? > > I'm thinking about things like X509_get_issuer_name, X509_get_subject_name > (which, I think, return pointers), and X509_get_serialNumber (which seems to > return a copy).
Well newer functions with a '1' in them allocate, ones with a '0' do not. Some older functions were written before this convention though. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. Email, S/MIME and PGP keys: see homepage OpenSSL project core developer and freelance consultant. Homepage: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
