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author | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2002-12-04 08:24:23 +0000 |
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committer | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2002-12-04 08:24:23 +0000 |
commit | 7000fd8418097671736391cb141b898503cf9a8a (patch) | |
tree | 636ca3b5befeb3445e37793395878f0b940bec77 | |
parent | 811cd997aeb7aef0e230b25d36601c1ba0602d44 (diff) |
A gcc 3.0 bug is triggered by our code. Add a section about it in PROBLEMS.
PR: 375
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@@ -40,3 +40,19 @@ scripts use the same name for output and input files, which means different will interfere with each other and lead to test failure. The solution is simple for now: don't run parallell make when testing. + + +* Bugs in gcc 3.0 triggered + +According to a problem report, there are bugs in gcc 3.0 that are +triggered by some of the code in OpenSSL, more specifically in +PEM_get_EVP_CIPHER_INFO(). The triggering code is the following: + + header+=11; + if (*header != '4') return(0); header++; + if (*header != ',') return(0); header++; + +What happens is that gcc might optimize a little too agressively, and +you end up with an extra incrementation when *header != '4'. + +We recommend that you upgrade gcc to as high a 3.x version as you can. |