Andy -

These fixes look great and solve the underlying problem we encountered with 
x_name.c and assumed byte-ordering.

We will re-test with these fixes and get back to you, but for now please 
consider this case closed (and fixed).

Thanks,

Mike

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> 
> From: "Andy Polyakov via RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2007/09/18 Tue PM 12:26:14 EDT
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> CC: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [openssl.org #1485] [PATCH] Type Punning fix for 0.9.7f+ and all 
> 0.9.8 on Big Endien 64 bit machines
> 
> > We have been building OpenSSL on PPC64 and S390X platforms with Linux
> > and have found some type punning errors in both the 0.9.7 tree and the
> > 0.9.8 tree. The self-test test_x509 fails due to this error. This error
> > only seems to appear on big endien 64 bit machines, whether compiling
> > for 32 or 64 bit targets.
> 
> This is circumstantial. I mean it's not specific to big endian 64-bit 
> platforms. It takes aggressive optimizer and large register bank, large 
> enough to apply those aggressive optimizations. Proper fix is 
> http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=16407 [and 
> http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=16408 for 0.9.8]. A.
> 
> 
> 



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