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From: Jean-Luc Cooke <jlcooke@certainkey.com>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Paris <dparis@w3works.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rspchan@starhub.net.sg
Subject: Re: [CRYPTO]: Miscompiling sha256.c by gcc 3.2.3 and arch pentium3,4
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:26:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040130172636.GA7382@certainkey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040130152835.GN31589@devserv.devel.redhat.com>

Jakub said something like...
> GCC handling of automatic const variables with initializers is very fragile.
> There have been numerous bugs in it in the past and last one has been fixed
> just yesterday (on GCC trunk only for the time being).  It will be
> eventually backported once it gets some more testing on GCC mainline.
> 
> The problematic line in sha256.c is:
> static void sha256_final(void* ctx, u8 *out)
> {
> ...
> 	const u8 padding[64] = { 0x80, };

Verry interesting.  Good work Jakub.

JLC

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-30 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-30  3:21 [CRYPTO]: Miscompiling sha256.c by gcc 3.2.3 and arch pentium3,4 R CHAN
2004-01-30 14:39 ` James Morris
2004-01-30 15:04   ` Dave Paris
2004-01-30 15:24     ` R Chan
2004-01-30 15:28     ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-01-30 16:35       ` James Morris
2004-01-30 17:14         ` Andy Isaacson
2004-01-30 19:49           ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-02-01 21:17             ` Bill Davidsen
2004-01-30 21:14         ` David S. Miller
2004-02-01 21:18           ` Bill Davidsen
2004-02-01 23:22             ` David S. Miller
2004-02-02  1:00             ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-02 18:55               ` Bill Davidsen
2004-01-30 17:26       ` Jean-Luc Cooke [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-30 15:43 Arnd Bergmann
2004-01-30 16:57 ` James Morris
2004-01-30 18:02   ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-01-30 18:35     ` James Morris
2004-01-30 18:53       ` James Morris
2004-02-02  4:08 linux
2004-02-05 19:40 ` Jean-Luc Cooke

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