Integrated all four patches, including the not yet committed patch #4 (as of 
yesterday, not counting the latest update where the warning suppression was 
moved).

Reviewed-by: Eugene Cohen <[email protected]>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: edk2-devel [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Cohen, Eugene
> Sent: Monday, December 07, 2015 6:32 AM
> To: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>; Long, Qin
> <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [edk2] [PATCH 0/4] CryptoPkg: fix ARM and RVCT issues
> 
> Ard,
> 
> > As far as patch #4 is concerned, let's wait for confirmation from
> Eugene, also
> > regarding the issue of reporting defect against RVCT (if there is a
> point in
> > doing so)
> 
> You're referring to "[PATCH 4/4] CryptoPkg/OpensslLib: ignore more
> false positive warnings for RVCT" and the idea of reporting bugs to the
> RVCT team, right?
> 
> My thinking is that since we're using RVCT 4 which is two generations
> behind now that we probably shouldn't expect to get support beyond
> something being a gross correctness problem.  I think someone who
> has spent some money on ARM Compiler 5 or 6 would be in a better
> position to ask for these updates.
> 
> As for the practicality of fixing these compiler "bugs": sure from an
> edk2 perspective these stand out because the other supported
> toolchains don't exhibit the artifacts.  For typical closed systems people
> who see this issue would just adjust the source a bit and move on.
> Since I know support comes at a cost (and for an old compiler that cost
> may be higher) I don't think I would want to use up a silver bullet to get
> these fixed.
> 
> Does OpenSSL support some sort of continuous integration concept?
> If so it would be great if ARM could donate some RVCT compiler
> licenses so the maintainers could build against it.
> 
> Eugene
> 
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