Re: [Chicken-users] OpenSSL egg option defaults poll

[Andy Bennett]

On 23/11/14 10:32, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 02:57:09 +0000 Andy Bennett <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>>   + Introduces a dependency on srfi-13 for the string-copy! and
>>     substring/shared procedures. This is so that we can do buffer
>>     management with the minimal of excess copying and garbage
>>     collection.
> 
> Beware that:
> 
> * string-copy! is currently broken for some cases in CHICKEN. Master has
>   a fix (6b36695d94e0bd977e0d85d48438f621128e1101), but it has net been
>   released yet.

Thanks Mario!

I've looked at that patch: it seems to only affect overlapping buffers.
I think, in the openssl case, the private buffer is always distinct from
the user buffer.

Can anyone think of any cases where that wouldn't be the case?


> * substring/shared is the same as substring in CHICKEN, AFAIK.

That's only called once in the corner cases so it doesn't really matter
if it wastes a copy. It's just there to stop junk in the tail of the
buffer being sent to the user.




Regards,
@ndy

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