How do I build a debug version of 0.9.8? David
On 7/5/05, Andy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay, having actually did what Andy suggested, i.e. the one liner fix > > in the assembly code, bn_div_words returns the correct results. > > Note that the final version, one committed to all relevant OpenSSL > branches since couple of days ago and one which actually made to just > released 0.9.8, is a bit different from originally suggested one-line > fix, see for example http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=14199. > > > At this point, my conclusion is, up to openssl-0.9.8-beta6, the ppc32 > > bn_div_words routine generated from crypto/bn/ppc.pl is still busted. > > Yes. Though it should be noted that 0.9.8 was inadvertently avoiding the > bug condition. Recall that original problem report was for 0.9.7. > > > Why do you signal an overflow condition when it appears functions that > > call bn_div_words do not check for overflow conditions? > > That's question to IBM. By the time they submitted the code, I've > explicitly asked what would be appropriate way to generate *fatal* > condition at that point, i.e. one which would result in a core dump, and > it came out as division by 0 instruction. By that time I had no access > to any PPC machine and had to just go with it. Now it actually came as > surprise that division by 0 does not raise an exception, but silently > returns implementation-specific value... A. > _______________________________________________ > Linuxppc-embedded mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
