From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 20 08:13:52 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0339D16A421 for ; Sun, 20 May 2007 08:13:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hselasky@c2i.net) Received: from swip.net (mailfe07.swip.net [212.247.154.193]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9873E13C484 for ; Sun, 20 May 2007 08:13:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hselasky@c2i.net) X-Cloudmark-Score: 0.000000 [] Received: from [193.217.102.48] (account mc467741@c2i.net HELO [10.0.0.249]) by mailfe07.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.7) with ESMTPA id 495320836; Sun, 20 May 2007 10:13:50 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 10:13:39 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <20070520022722.1f5a0cda@kan.dnsalias.net> In-Reply-To: <20070520022722.1f5a0cda@kan.dnsalias.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705201013.39171.hselasky@c2i.net> Cc: Michiel Boland , Larry Rosenman Subject: Re: HEADS UP: OpenSSL problems after GCC 4.2 upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 08:13:52 -0000 On Sunday 20 May 2007 08:27, Alexander Kabaev wrote: > Hi all, > > 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. Why does it not break on compile/link time? --HPS