HEADS UP: OpenSSL problems after GCC 4.2 upgrade

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Sun May 20 16:02:46 UTC 2007


On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:03:57PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> Alexander Kabaev <kabaev at gmail.com> writes:
> > there were several reports of OpenSSL being broken when compiled with
> > GCC 4.2. It turns out OpenSSL uses function casting feature that was
> > aggressively de-supported by GCC 4.2 and GCC goes as far as inserting
> > invalid instructions ON PURPOSE to discourage the practice.
> 
> Is there a web page somewhere (or an archived mailing list discussion,
> or whatever) which discusses the issue and explains the rationale for
> intentionally generating incorrect code?
> 

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-07/msg00037.html

PS: 

http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/tcsh-bugs/2007-May/

-- 
Steve


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