On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 01:29:39PM -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: "Misaki.Miyashita via RT" <r...@openssl.org> > Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 06:59:18 +0100 > > > Hi, > > > > We don't have RNG instructions, and calling _sparcv9_random() causes > > SIGILL and debug tools (i.e. gdb and mdb) stops when libcrypto.so is > > loaded (at _init()). > > % mdb `which openssl` > > > ::run > > mdb: stop on SIGILL > > mdb: target stopped at: > > libcrypto.so.1.0.0`_sparcv9_random+4: random %d8 > > Do not do this, the instruction is valid and we'd like to detect > the presence of it on chips that actually have it. > > We use SIGILL sequence to detect presence for all crypto instructions, > so if your logic would apply to all of the instructions we try to > detect. > > This is the standard way that openssl probes for instruction > presence.
I keep running into people having this problem when trying to debug something. Maybe this should get added to the FAQ? Kurt ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
