On Tue, Apr 03, 2012, Naveen Nathan wrote: > > > > That's because the ASN1_OBJECT is a little different. Some standard > > > > OIDs are > > > > set to a fixed value to avoid the need to keep allocating them. What > > > > that > > > > means in practice is you do something like: > > > > > > > > foo->usage = OBJ_something(somearg); > > > > > > > > This wont result in a memory leak because the OID isn't dynamically > > > > allocated. > > > > > > I would also be using custom OIDs. Would I need to first register the OIDs > > > using OBJ_create? Normally we don't use any name identifier. Or is there > > > a way to duplicate an ASN1_OBJECT? > > > > > > Otherwise I can probably write an auxillary function to handle this in > > > a similar vein to OBJ_dup(ASN1_OBJECT *). > > > > > > > You can use OBJ_txt2obj to created an ASN1_OBJECT from the numerical form if > > you wish. OBJ_dup will duplicate an ASN1_OBJECT just fine. > > Thanks, but perhaps I am a little unclear about the issue I'm having. > > I have written the following code to demonstrate the issue I'm having, > specifically with ASN1_OBJECT in a custom ASN1 struct containing only > one ASN1_OBJECT type. > > I just have a basic ASN1 sequence containing an ASN1_OBJECT. I want > to assign the custom OID "1.2.3.4" to obj. When I try to do this with > OBJ_txt2obj(), this becomes the cause for a segfault on i2d_basic(). > > I'm unsure why this segfault occurs. My guess is obj is already > allocated by simple_asn_new(); therefore reassigning it with > a newly created object from OBJ_txt2obj() causes a segfault. > But I'm not too familiar with the internals of the i2d_* routine > to see how this is possible. >
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