Re: alignment and thread problem - solaris

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: Randy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

rw26> I know that malloc is not reentrant. However, if somewhere in the openssl
rw26> libraries malloc is also called, perhaps that is when I get this crash. 

Yes, OpenSSL uses malloc by default.  I think it is generally assumed
that any OS that supports threads also has to support malloc() for
threads, since that would be a quite common operation.  That mean that
if the OS implementors have done their job, their malloc()
implementation will use a mutex (I really don't see any other way to
implement it).

However, should you dislike that, it's perfectly possible for you to
implement your own malloc(), free() and realloc() and "register" them
with CRYPTO_set_mem_functions() (declared in crypto.h), generally
available since a month or so in 0.9.5-dev.

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