> Following your suggestion would create a layer violation and move LibreSSL closer toward the (much maligned) OpenSSL approach to cross platform compatibility.

> Following your suggestion would create a layer violation and move LibreSSL closer toward the (much maligned) OpenSSL approach to cross platform compatibility. The OpenSSL approach to portability is doomed: it can only deal with cosmetic differences between platforms. I appreciate the principle of using compatibility functions instead of #ifdef, but at some point, you need to incorporate the panoply of architectures into your design. It galls me to see the OpenBSD people claim that Linux is broken merely because it is different. That's incredibly arrogance.