Someone ™ thought it was smart to save memory by using malloc(1) and
manual field fiddling to create an ASN1_INTEGER object, instead of using
M_ASN1_INTEGER_new() which will allocate sizeof(long) bytes.
That person had probably never looked into malloc(3) and never heard of
allocation size rounding.
Thus, replace the obfuscated code with M_ASN1_INTEGER_new() followed by
ASN1_INTEGER_set(), to achieve a similar result, without the need for
/* version == 0 */ comments.
— miod