INSTALL: Provide better documentation for enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128
authorRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Tue, 22 May 2018 21:09:01 +0000 (23:09 +0200)
committerRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Wed, 23 May 2018 09:57:04 +0000 (11:57 +0200)
Reviewed-by: Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/6328)

INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index a0ebef9b5f0c643c08156930a7f877052bdeb79c..52e3f2ae6c903f713d19e1bc4214006d351639b9 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
 
   enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128
                    Enable support for optimised implementations of some commonly
-                   used NIST elliptic curves. This is only supported on some
-                   platforms.
+                   used NIST elliptic curves.
+                   This is only supported on platforms:
+                   - with little-endian storage of non-byte types
+                   - that tolerate misaligned memory references
+                   - where the compiler:
+                     - supports the non-standard type __uint128_t
+                     - defines the built-in macro __SIZEOF_INT128__
 
   enable-egd
                    Build support for gathering entropy from EGD (Entropy