Re: HEADS UP: OpenSSL problems after GCC 4.2 upgrade

On Monday 21 May 2007, Simon L. Nielsen said:
On 2007.05.20 02:27:22 -0400, Alexander Kabaev wrote:
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.

"Interesting" choice - oh well.

Consequently, OpenSSL need the patch similar to attached one to
work. Just in case mailing list will eat the attachment, the
patch can be found at

http://people.freebsd.org/~kan/openssl-gcc42.diff

Unfortunately, our OpenSSL maintainer(s) are currently en-route
from BSDCan and cannot attend to the matters. Once we figure the
best way to fix the code and to integrate the fix into OpenSSL,
we will check the fix info CVS. People are advised to patch their
sources locally until then.

I had hoped to be able to test and commit today, but I'm too beat
from the trip from Canada to be able to do this until tomorrow
(it's very high in the priority list to get this done tomorrow but
I don't know how hard the jet lag will hit this time).

I haven't seen enough reports of this patch working to be really
comfortable committing the patch without having had a chance to try
it myself.

Other people who try this patch please report any success/failure.
Success can also just be reported in private mail.

Oh, and in case people were wondering - I'm not a "vendor branch
purist" wrt. OpenSSL, so getting the patch commited once I'm sure
it is OK isn't a problem.

Alexander, thanks a lot for looking at this!

I applied the patch and it did fix the problem for me. I would call it
a success.

Beech



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