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Re: [PATCH] PolarSSL support in cURL

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 23:05:40 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 5 May 2010, Howard Chu wrote:

>> o Speaking of version, is there really no way (build time or run time) to
>> figure out what PolarSSL version that is used?
>
> Looks like it. It sort of makes sense when you're working with an embedded
> environment - the version at build time is what it is, and it's statically
> embedded into the binary so runtime checks are superfluous.

1. There's no info about it at build time either. And I claim that knowing
    what version that is used is good knowledge and helps a lot.

2. This is not done exclusively for embedded environments. I can easily
    replace the .so and thus get a different library in run-time.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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