Recent openssl is required for OPENSSL_free [Re: Please test snapshots for 3.0 release] (fwd)

[Lutz Jaenicke]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:25:21PM +1100, Damien Miller wrote:
> > I just had a look into the source. Since BN_bn2dec() really allocates
> > the buffer itself (using OPENSSL_malloc() in recent versions), there is
> > nothing an application writer can do with respect to this inconsistency.
> > (For all OpenSSL special data types, TYPE_new() and TYPE_free() exist.)
> > The only thing that could be done is to query the version defined in
> > opensslv.h and based on that make a #if OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER construct.
> 
> Can people try this patch?
...

Seems to make sense; testcompilation with 0.9.6b succeeded... (still waiting
for 0.9.5 report)

Best regards,
	Lutz
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