[fedora-arm] Broken sha512sum in coreutils

Gordan Bobic gordan at bobich.net
Fri Jan 7 19:51:16 UTC 2011


On 01/07/2011 07:46 PM, Jitesh Shah wrote:
> ..snip..
>
>>>
>>> This must be a bug in sha512sum -- it shouldn't be affected by alignment.
>>
>> I am inclined to think it might be compiler related. Andy's package is
>> the same version as mine, his works, mine does not. The only thing that
>> is likely to be different is the build environment.
>
> That and the development board. You are using a sheevaplug.
> It is also likely that Andy's hardware does fixups for misaligned accesses.

That can be done transparently in hardware without a performance hit?

Gordan


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