Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> 
> From: Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> ben> Goetz Babin-Ebell wrote:
> ben> > We could do domething like
> ben> >
> ben> > #define PEM_read_PrivateKey(fp,pkeyp,callback)\
> ben> > PEM_read_PrivateKey_ex(fp,pkeyp,callback,NULL)
> ben> >
> ben> > Would be no overkill, cause we still have only one set of functions
> ben>
> ben> Oh yes. That's sensible.
> 
> I know that we don't care much about API changes in 0.9.x.  However, I
> hope changes like that won't happen when you do care.  The reason is
> that it would break linkage to older versions of shareable libraries
> (DLL's, shareable images, whatever you wanna call it).  Whenever we
> start to care about such things, PEM_read_PrivateKey would have to be
> a wrapper function, not a macro.

Of course.

Cheers,

Ben.

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