[openssl-dev] Backporting opaque struct getter/setter functions

[Tomas Mraz]

On Po, 2016-01-11 at 01:09 +0000, Peter Waltenberg wrote:
> The point of using accessor FUNCTIONS is that the code doesn't break
> if the structure size or offsets of fields in the underlying
> structures change across binaries.
> 
> Where that mainly has an impact is updating the crypto/ssl libs
> underneath existing binaries is more likely to just work.
> 
> #defines in the headers do not help at all here.
> 

The point is in achieving reverse API compatibility between 1.1 and
1.0.2. No binary compatibility is expected between those branches.

I think that having the API compatibility would be really useful thing
easing porting application code to 1.1 branch.

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Tomas Mraz
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