How can I use the OSS ASN.1/C++ API in a multithreaded application?

For more information about multithreading, see the Using Multiple Threads section. Here is a summary:

Guidelines For Using The OSS ASN.1/C++ API In Multithreaded Applications:

• You should have a separate OssControl object for each thread.
• In versions prior to 4.1, you must specify the NOTRAPPING runtime flag to achieve thread-safety. In versions 4.1 and later, you should not set the OSS_TRAPPING flag.
• Do not use the Default error handling mechanism (i.e. the default asn1_get_last_error() ASN.1/C++ API function).
• Use OSS Special Memory Management Classes with the following Restrictions:
  • do not change the current memory system
  • deallocate each object belonging to the memory pools in the same thread that allocated it

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