HEADS UP: OpenSSL problems after GCC 4.2 upgrade

Henrik Brix Andersen henrik at brixandersen.dk
Sun May 20 11:34:11 UTC 2007


Hi,

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:27:22AM -0400, Alexander Kabaev wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Consequently, OpenSSL need the patch similar to attached one to work.
> Just in case mailing list will eat the attachment, the patch can be
> found at
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~kan/openssl-gcc42.diff

Thanks. I can confirm that the above patch fixes the openssl core
dumps (illegal instruction) I was seeing after the upgrade to gcc-4.2.

Regards,
Brix
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Henrik Brix Andersen <henrik at brixandersen.dk>
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