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author | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2023-05-17 10:33:27 +0200 |
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committer | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2023-05-22 08:29:30 +0200 |
commit | 945834914ffad3548052bbb1c785ec36263af268 (patch) | |
tree | 10a3137ecfcbfc10412b033514f7a61860af020f | |
parent | b93c2d360812c4e1ecc1d93f3f1e8d58e9e4e7f4 (diff) |
Add information on the 'ias' port for OpenVMS
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Hugo Landau <hlandau@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/20983)
(cherry picked from commit d500f04400d0acc83fe5270da860764a7d19deee)
-rw-r--r-- | NOTES-VMS.md | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/NOTES-VMS.md b/NOTES-VMS.md index e27f3d682a..566a04d2a9 100644 --- a/NOTES-VMS.md +++ b/NOTES-VMS.md @@ -83,6 +83,23 @@ When done, we recommend that you turn that flag back off: $ set image /flag=nocall_debug [.test]evp_test.exe +About assembler acceleration +---------------------------- + +OpenSSL has assembler acceleration for a number of BIGNUM and crypto +routines. The VMS config targets tries to look for a selection of +assemblers and will use what they find. If none of the assemblers are +found, OpenSSL will be built as if `no-asm` was configured. + +### For Itanium / IA64 / I64 + +- There is only one assembler, a port of Intel's `ias`, found in the + HP Open Source Tools CD, available through [DECUSlib](http://www.decuslib.com). + It's assumed to be set up as per the instructions, where `disk` and + `dir` are expected to be adapted to local conditions: + + $ ias :== $disk:[dir]iasi64.exe + Checking the distribution ------------------------- |