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| author | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2002-12-04 09:24:18 +0100 |
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| committer | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2002-12-04 09:24:18 +0100 |
| commit | ff3345cb721dcbea19edd6e2d663490c1c721e67 (patch) | |
| tree | 4a1643f1c92bd8c95c5972b82ac91c225baff6ed /PROBLEMS | |
| parent | Make ASN1_TYPE_get() work for V_ASN1_NULL type. (diff) | |
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A gcc 3.0 bug is triggered by our code. Add a section about it in PROBLEMS.
PR: 375
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@@ -46,3 +46,19 @@ 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. |