[fedora-arm] Broken sha512sum in coreutils

[Andrew Haley]

On 01/07/2011 07:33 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> On 01/07/2011 06:52 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>
>>>>>> No, it's not the same issue.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On x86 as described on your link, it's just a performance penalty if
>>>>>> your members are not aligned. On ARM without fixup, you read actual
>>>>>> garbage as described on my article.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yup, I was more referring to the data not aligning when unioning
>>>>
>>>> That's nothing to do with this issue.
>>>>
>>>> With this issue, a correct structure in a typedef or a struct with
>>>> correct alignment padding turns to crap because the structure pointed to
>>>> is not on a u32 boundary for example.
>>>
>>> I see. But shouldn't the compiler be taking care of that? -malign?
>>
>> The compiler will always take care of that, unless someone does
>> something really evil in either the code or the gcc options.
>
> s/will/should/ and I might agree. :)

LOL!  Well, I am a gcc maintainer, so I have my own opinion about that!
:)

In any case, I'm happy to bet this is a library bug, not a gcc bug.

Andrew.