[openssl-dev] [openssl.org #3920] ECDSA_METHOD_new() argument should be constified?

[Dr. Matthias St. Pierre]

On 06/22/2015 09:17 PM, Dmitry Belyavsky via RT wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I try to provide my own ECDSA method using engine. I want to use common
> functions for verifying the signature and a custom one for signing.
> 
> My code is
> 
> ...
>   const ECDSA_METHOD * meth1 = ECDSA_OpenSSL();
>   forwarder_ec_method = ECDSA_METHOD_new(meth1);
> ...
> 
> Compiling it, I get an error:
> 
> error: passing argument 1 of ‘ECDSA_METHOD_new’ discards ‘const’ qualifier
> from pointer target type [-Werror]
> 
> Shouldn't the argument of the ECDSA_METHOD_new() function be const struct
> ECDSA_METHOD * instead of struct ECDSA_METHOD *?


Just happened to submit a patch fixing two const-correctness issues of the ECDSA_METHOD api
almost simultaneously to your post, see [openssl.org #3921]

Regards,
MSP