TYPE_new() and TYPE_free()

Ken Goldman kgoldman at us.ibm.com
Fri Aug 27 21:28:52 UTC 2021


Assuming that I use the ASN1_SEQUENCE, ASN1_SEQUENCE_END,
DECLARE_ASN1_FUNCTIONS, IMPLEMENT_ASN1_FUNCTIONS macros ...

TYPE_free() says that it frees all sub-objects.  Can I
assume that, if the sub-objects are also defined
with those macros, that it will iterate all the way?

TYPE_new() allocates the object.  Does it set
all the pointers to NULL, and iterate down
through sub-structure - so that the free is safe?



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