Re: Hmm... (discoveries about BIGNUM code)

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Actually, I'm starting to wonder if I'm losing my sanity.  I've stared
at the code for some time now, and it does look like the expansion of
a in the code below is really needed, from reading bn_sqr_recursive()
and the stuff it calls...

>                       if (al == j)
>                               {
>                               if (bn_wexpand(a,k*2) == NULL) goto err;
>                               if (bn_wexpand(tmp,k*2) == NULL) goto err;
>                               bn_sqr_recursive(rr->d,tmp_bn->d,al,tmp->d);


The conclusion is that it should be possible to remove the expansion
of a completely in the code above.

Could someone double-check for me, to make sure I'm going insane?

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