libcrypt/md5.c: a few statics can be auto variables; strlen("const") is silly

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Wed Jun 11 15:22:42 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 11 June 2008 11:37, Will Newton wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Denys Vlasenko
> > It makes sp, ep and p variables automatic.
> > There is no point in having them static,
> > they never use their values retained from previous call.
> > These are code lines where they are assigned to:
> 
> This looks like it should be safe. Although it might be worth finding
> the original author and asking why it is done this way, following the
> Debian openssl incident. ;-)

openssl incident? Did I miss some fun? :)
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