Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 15:52:34 +0200
From: Gert Doering <gert@...1296...>
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Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Replace variable length array with
	malloc
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Hi,

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 04:22:59PM +0300, Lev Stipakov wrote:
> Commit https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/commit/685e486e8b8f70c25f09590c=
24762ff734f94a51
> introduced a variable length array. Although C99 supports that, MSVS 2013=
 still requires
> size of array to be compiler time constant. As a fix, use OPENSSL_malloc/=
free.

Why OPENSSL_malloc() in particular?

(As I have no clue about the intricacies of openssl-interfacing code, this
might be a stupid question, but it looks like "normal gc_malloc() should
be perfectly fine")

gert
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