Reg missing rc4-ia64.pl in openssl 1.1.1

[Michael Wojcik]

> From: openssl-users [mailto:openssl-users-bounces at openssl.org] On Behalf Of J. J. Farrell
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 15:02

> On 29/05/2019 18:39, ramakrushna mishra wrote:

>> In Openssl 1.1.1,  the file "rc4-ia64.pl" is missing. This cause degradation of
>> performance on AIX. ...

> The AIX port to Itanium was never released as a product, and was abandoned
> altogether in 2002; I'm surprised that a degradation of performance on it
> matters to anyone.

What, no love for unobtainable archaic platforms?

Personally, I'm bemoaning the lack of a rc4-romp.pl for AIX 2 on my RT PC. And the shocking lack of assembly modules for the PDP-11.

In all seriousness: It's pretty cool that OpenSSL still includes assembly modules for what are now rather niche architectures such as MIPS and PA-RISC. And in case all this is too convoluted for the OP, rc4-ia64.pl doesn't apply to extant AIX systems, which are all some variant of POWER, not IA64.

(OK, somewhere someone probably has one of the other AIX variants running - AIX/390 might be the last non-POWER AIX to die, if I had to bet. But probably not AIX IA64.)

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Michael Wojcik
Distinguished Engineer, Micro Focus