[fedora-arm] Broken sha512sum in coreutils

[Rich Mattes]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:

> 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
>

There was some discussion about this previously on the list[1].  From the
responses it looks like OMAP does it transparently, but there is a
performance hit.

Rich

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/arm@lists.fedoraproject.org/msg00139.html
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