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<a62628880fea43fa8505f895c22f0...@usma1ex-dag1mb1.msg.corp.akamai.com> on Sun,
24 Jul 2016 17:19:05 +0000, "Salz, Rich" <rs...@akamai.com> said:
rsalz>
rsalz> > Shouldn't this be EC_KEY *EC_KEY_dup(const EC_KEY *src);
rsalz>
rsalz> I think the reason it is not is because the EC_KEY has an ENGINE* and
that can't be const.
The pointer to ENGINE will be const, yes, but not the ENGINE content
itself, as if it was defined like this:
ENGINE * const engine;
What happens is that the ENGINE pointer is copied to the new
structure, and the ENGINE itself will work perfectly, both in the
source EC_KEY and the new one.
So there's no actual reason not to have const there. It does,
however, mean that we need to add const in a few more places. Now
many at all, actually, it took me 5 minutes. PR coming tomorrow.
Cheers,
Richard
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