[openssl-users] 1.1.1 pre1 tests failing on Solaris SPARC

Salz, Rich rsalz at akamai.com
Tue Feb 20 19:09:21 UTC 2018


I agree, let's just use malloc for the reasons you said.  PR later today.

On 2/20/18, 2:08 PM, "Viktor Dukhovni" <openssl-users at dukhovni.org> wrote:

    
    
    > On Feb 20, 2018, at 11:36 AM, Norm Green <norm.green at gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
    > 
    > Your patch tests clean, however there is an easier way which avoids malloc:
    
    Great, so it was the unaligned "buf".  Great.  As for malloc vs. tricks to
    align the stack-based array, I see little need to avoid malloc() this is a
    test function, not a performance-critical library function.  Exercising
    OPENSSL_malloc() is arguably a feature. :-)
    
    That said, I have no religion on which approach is taken to align "buf".
    I prefer "malloc" because it unasks the question of which type to use
    in an array or union to ensure the "proper" alignment.  Using any of
    "long" or "long long" is likely good enough, but could prove more fragile
    as the code evolves.
    
    -- 
    	Viktor.
    
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