Re: stats (and back-monitor) counters wrap when overflowing (ITS#3324)

[ando@sys-net.it]

Kurt@OpenLDAP.org wrote:

>At 07:22 AM 9/11/2004, ando@sys-net.it wrote:
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>>hyc@symas.com wrote:
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>>>It's a bit of an indirection, but I note that OpenSSL includes a BigNum 
>>>library for arbitrary precision. I'm hesitant to make OpenSSL a 
>>>requirement to support back-monitor, but since all of my deployments 
>>>include OpenSSL anyway, I'm also reluctant to add another math library 
>>>dependency.
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>>>
>>Honestly, I preferred to use GMP if available; if not,
>>counters wrap, but at least remain unsigned! 
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>I prefer we support (and favor) OpenSSL BigNum over GMP.
>OpenSSL it is more widely available (and mostly likely
>would otherwise be required).  For instance, on FreeBSD,
>GMP is not in the default install (but is in the "ports").
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I see.  I don't think there's any portability or performance issues
(especially for integers).  I'll work with this later (I'm leaving
for a week-long business trip).  In any case, the bug is fixed, and
a better fix can come later (please test).

p.



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