Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
>
> I just found a very intricate little bug in a project I work with:
> ASN1_UTCTIME_print() wouldn't be declared, even if I included bio.h
> before asn1.h (in asn1.h, a check is done on the existence of
> HEADER_BIO_H to declare that function, among others). I traced it to
> a home-grown header that included x509.h, which happens to include
> asn1.h, of course without including bio.h first, since it wasn't
> really needed for that particular home-grown header file.
>
> I can't really understand the reasons behind checking on HEADER_BIO_H
> in asn1.h, or for that matter, in bn.h, dh.h, dsa.h, err.h (which also
> looks at HEADER_LHASH_H), evp.h, lhash.h, pem.h (which also looks at
> HEADER_STACK_H), rsa.h, ssl.h (which looks at a whole bunch of others
> as well), txt_db.h, x509.h (which also looks a a bunch of others)...
>
> It's plain and simple, checking for HEADER_BIO_H and others the way
> it's done can lead to a lot of confusion. It would be much better to
> check for something like NO_BIO and the like to be used by users who
> actively choose not to use that particular feature.
+1
Cheers,
Ben.
--
http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html
Coming to ApacheCon Europe 2000? http://apachecon.com/
______________________________________________________________________
OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org
Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
