On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Andy Polyakov via RT <r...@openssl.org> wrote:
>>>>> As for warning. I personally would argue that we are looking at
>>>>> platform-specific i.e. implementation-defined behaviour, not undefined.
>>>>> Once again, this applies to all three tickets. One is effectively
>>>>> identical to this one, second is about variable shift in CAST. As
>>>>> mentioned they all are conscious choices and are proven to work.
>>> I think Andy is right with respect to processor behavior. But I'm not
>>> certain if its the best strategy given the C langauge rules.
>>
>> What does it mean in practical terms? Would you a) resort to
>> STRICT_ALIGNMENT at all occasions (arguing that performance benefits
>> never worth it); b) accept compromise suggestion to adhere to
>> STRICT_ALIGNMENT in debug-like build, in this case one with -DPEDANTIC?
>
> As nobody weighed in, -DPEDANTIC it is. I.e. if you compile with
> -fsanitize, you should also add -DPEDANTIC.
>
> http://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=021e5043e524b1cb28a929ef902548a987c16e65
>
> As mentioned this applies to tickets #3422-4.
Looks good to me. Self tests were fine with -DPEDANTIC.

Andy - where would be an effective place to document it?

Jeff


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