[Info-vax] cURL/libcurl 7.46 PCSI kits available.

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-01-05 22:39:25 +0000, hb said:

> On 01/05/2016 06:03 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> Yeah; then there was some schmuck that spent a couple of weeks 
>> reverse-engineering the executable images and the vectors to write a 
>> tool that rewrites the vectors, so that piles of other code didn't need 
>> to be redone.
> 
> The imgexp tool (in the VMS Objects and Images Tools, VOIT) lists the 
> symbol vector like this (I don't know how this will be wrapped in your 
> newsreader):
> ...
> I'm sure you can rewrite the above bash commands as a DCL command 
> procedure. Yes, imgexp is available for I64 as well.

Um, okay.   But why would I want that, when the cited tool is already 
available, already works, and already does rather more than list the 
vectors?

You run it, and you get stub images — shim shareable images — ready to 
link against.

But since I was apparently unclear, allow me to clarify:   The SSL and 
SSL1 kits are broken.  They don't properly deal with mixed-case.

I really don't want to have written nor to use the Shimmer tool, nor to 
wander off into the image tools or the rest of this stuff.   But I need 
SSL to work.

This particular area of OpenVMS features more than a little of what's 
not desirable in security-relevant code too, but then I'm being polite.





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