On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:03:02PM -0500, Rene Rivera wrote:
the proposals I've seen useless. There are two aspects which must be addressed:
1. Security of memory allocation. Should be solved on a memory management/OS level. Adding allocator
"Useless" is a strong word. parameters may be the way to go. But it may be easier to ask the OS to erase the memory once the process dies. Are there OSes that support this?
2. Access to normalized representation. Define "normalized representation".
I do think that the type should support all the conversions defined for the built-in types, including conversion to hexadecimal.
required by certificates, keys, protocols, etc. So a documented access to the representation is essential for implementing such translation efficiently.
Can you give an example of a translation that would require this access? Regards, -Gerhard -- Gerhard Wesp ZRH office voice: +41 (0)44 668 1878 ZRH office fax: +41 (0)44 200 1818 For the rest I claim that raw pointers must be abolished.