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Date:      Sun, 20 May 2007 10:13:39 +0200
From:      Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Michiel Boland <michiel@boland.org>, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: OpenSSL problems after GCC 4.2 upgrade
Message-ID:  <200705201013.39171.hselasky@c2i.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070520022722.1f5a0cda@kan.dnsalias.net>
References:  <20070520022722.1f5a0cda@kan.dnsalias.net>

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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



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