[fedora-arm] Broken sha512sum in coreutils

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Fri Jan 7 20:23:27 UTC 2011


On 01/07/11 19:46, Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> ..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.

It's an NXP LPC3250, ARM926EJ-S.  I have no idea if the hardware is 
handling the alignment issue but that would explain why everything is 
exactly zero on that box's alignment error stats.  Searching the 
datasheet for 'alignment' doesn't tell anything relevant.

-Andy


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