"Salz, Rich" wrote:
> 
> >       (a=b) && (a=BN_dup(b));
> 
> Oh gak, are we really trying to be clever for its
> own sake?

Yes. Is there something wrong with that? Bear in mind that I was
disussing language architecture, not how OpenSSL should work.

> >But back to the original question. I think it's really
> >Bug and should be handled by BN_dup() internally.
> 
> I dunno.  I prefer that functions coredump when given
> NULL pointers.

There's already a lot of precedent for being nice about NULL in OpenSSL.

Cheers,

Ben.

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