On Mon, 2017-10-23 at 22:52 +0200, Niels Möller wrote: > Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n...@redhat.com> writes: > > > On Thu, 2017-09-28 at 21:48 +0200, Niels Möller wrote: > > > To get minimal ABI breakage, I also suspect we would need a > > > release > > > branch where I revert recent changes that grow the size of struct > > > ecc_curve; my idea is to introduce functions returning pointers > > > to > > > the > > > instances of this struct. But as long as applications are using > > > the > > > data > > > symbols directly as advertised in ecc-curves.h, executables with > > > R_X86_64_COPY relocations will break, in the same way as arrays > > > like > > > nettle_hashes. > > > > I agree that this is the most important to address. I don't think I > > have any good suggestion in addressing that. > > Below is my work-in-progress patch. Comments appreciated.
The changes seem good and backwards compatible. I haven't tested compiling gnutls or running its test suite though. regards, Nikos _______________________________________________ nettle-bugs mailing list nettle-bugs@lists.lysator.liu.se http://lists.lysator.liu.se/mailman/listinfo/nettle-bugs
