From: "Salz, Rich" <rs...@akamai.com> > There's a bunch of hacks in apps/openssl.c to work around some old VMS rele= > ases; the coment is dated 2011-03-22. > I am going to delete it.
Thanks for the notice. Why? Is your primary goal to remove all support for VMS, or only to cause defective behavior on most/all Alpha systems when 64-bit pointers are used? Does this code cause any performance or other portability problems? Is the comment too confusing? Does this (rather small, I thought) "bunch of hacks" fluff up the source code excessively? If _you_ don't need it, then it's not worth keeping? > Speak up now if you can justify keeping it. I know nothing, but I'd guess that few VMS users follow this forum, so you may be unlikely to get a response here from anyone (else). The problem being worked around is not confined to "old VMS releases", it's in a particular compiler (or set of compilers), which. I believe, may still be widely used (for appropriate values of "widely"). Yes, HP should provide a compiler without this bug, and all users should obtain and use it. This, I fear, is a low-probability outcome. If the Voices (or even wise judgement) tell you that this ugly blot on the OpenSSL code must be purged, then you might consider replacing it with a comment which explains the original problem, the work-around, and the last release which still contained it, so that any poor slob who is affected by it in the future will be able to find easily the (hard-won) solution after you discard it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven M. Schweda sms@antinode-info 382 South Warwick Street (+1) 651-699-9818 Saint Paul MN 55105-2547 ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
