I vote for option (3). 2nd preference - (2).
> On Oct 25, 2015, at 7:33 , Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It looks like the GCC compiler is broken for RDSEED on Cygwin and MinGW
> (RDRAND gear is fine). Here's a test under Cygwin-X86. Cygwin-X64 produced a
> similar error
>
> g++ -DNDEBUG -g2 -O3 -maes -msse4 -msse3 -msse2 -mrdrnd -mrdseed -Wall
> -march=native -c rdrand.cpp
> rdrand.cpp: In function ‘int CryptoPP::GCC_RSI_GenerateBlock(byte*,
> size_t, unsigned int)’:
> rdrand.cpp:616:51: error: ‘__builtin_ia32_rdseed32_step’ was not declared
> in this scope
> if (__builtin_ia32_rdseed32_step((word32*)output))
> ^
> rdrand.cpp:634:40: error: ‘__builtin_ia32_rdseed32_step’ was not declared
> in this scope
> if (__builtin_ia32_rdseed32_step(&val))
> ^
> GNUmakefile:414: recipe for target 'rdrand.o' failed
> make: *** [rdrand.o] Error 1
>
> As far as I know, __builtin_ia32_rdseed{16|32|64}_step are the only functions
> semi-documented by GCC. Confer,
> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/x86-Built-in-Functions.html. Everything
> else is undocumented (counter examples are welcomed).
>
> JPM wanted RDSEED, and I think we should provide it. We have to decide what
> to do here.
>
> I think the options are:
>
> (1) Remove RDSEED completely until GCC provides full support
> (2) Disable RDSEED for the Unix on Windows gear until GCC provides full
> support
> (3) Provide an ASM implementation that always "just works"
>
> What is the course of action we should take?
>
> Jeff
>
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