Re: [CRYPTO]: Miscompiling sha256.c by gcc 3.2.3 and arch pentium3,4

[Jean-Luc Cooke]

Jakub said something like...
> GCC handling of automatic const variables with initializers is very fragile.
> There have been numerous bugs in it in the past and last one has been fixed
> just yesterday (on GCC trunk only for the time being).  It will be
> eventually backported once it gets some more testing on GCC mainline.
> 
> The problematic line in sha256.c is:
> static void sha256_final(void* ctx, u8 *out)
> {
> ...
> 	const u8 padding[64] = { 0x80, };

Verry interesting.  Good work Jakub.

JLC

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