+
+* Parallell make leads to errors
+
+While running tests, running a parallell make is a bad idea. Many test
+scripts use the same name for output and input files, which means different
+will interfere with each other and lead to test failure.
+
+The solution is simple for now: don't run parallell make when testing.
+
+
+* Bugs in gcc 3.0 triggered
+
+According to a problem report, there are bugs in gcc 3.0 that are
+triggered by some of the code in OpenSSL, more specifically in
+PEM_get_EVP_CIPHER_INFO(). The triggering code is the following:
+
+ header+=11;
+ if (*header != '4') return(0); header++;
+ if (*header != ',') return(0); header++;
+
+What happens is that gcc might optimize a little too agressively, and
+you end up with an extra incrementation when *header != '4'.
+
+We recommend that you upgrade gcc to as high a 3.x version as you can.
+
+* solaris64-sparcv9-cc SHA-1 performance with WorkShop 6 compiler.
+
+As subject suggests SHA-1 might perform poorly (4 times slower)
+if compiled with WorkShop 6 compiler and -xarch=v9. The cause for
+this seems to be the fact that compiler emits multiplication to
+perform shift operations:-( To work the problem around configure
+with './Configure solaris64-sparcv9-cc -DMD32_REG_T=int'.
+
+* Problems with hp-parisc2-cc target when used with "no-asm" flag
+
+When using the hp-parisc2-cc target, wrong bignum code is generated.
+This is due to the SIXTY_FOUR_BIT build being compiled with the +O3
+aggressive optimization.
+The problem manifests itself by the BN_kronecker test hanging in an
+endless loop. Reason: the BN_kronecker test calls BN_generate_prime()
+which itself hangs. The reason could be tracked down to the bn_mul_comba8()
+function in bn_asm.c. At some occasions the higher 32bit value of r[7]
+is off by 1 (meaning: calculated=shouldbe+1). Further analysis failed,
+as no debugger support possible at +O3 and additional fprintf()'s
+introduced fixed the bug, therefore it is most likely a bug in the
+optimizer.
+The bug was found in the BN_kronecker test but may also lead to
+failures in other parts of the code.
+(See Ticket #426.)
+
+Workaround: modify the target to +O2 when building with no-asm.
+
+* Problems building shared libraries on SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.6
+ with gcc 2.95.3
+
+The symptoms appear when running the test suite, more specifically
+test/ectest, with the following result:
+
+OSSL_LIBPATH="`cd ..; pwd`"; LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$OSSL_LIBPATH:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"; DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="$OSSL_LIBPATH:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH"; SHLIB_PATH="$OSSL_LIBPATH:$SHLIB_PATH"; LIBPATH="$OSSL_LIBPATH:$LIBPATH"; if [ "debug-sco5-gcc" = "Cygwin" ]; then PATH="${LIBPATH}:$PATH"; fi; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH SHLIB_PATH LIBPATH PATH; ./ectest
+ectest.c:186: ABORT
+
+The cause of the problem seems to be that isxdigit(), called from
+BN_hex2bn(), returns 0 on a perfectly legitimate hex digit. Further
+investigation shows that any of the isxxx() macros return 0 on any
+input. A direct look in the information array that the isxxx() use,
+called __ctype, shows that it contains all zeroes...
+
+Taking a look at the newly created libcrypto.so with nm, one can see
+that the variable __ctype is defined in libcrypto's .bss (which
+explains why it is filled with zeroes):
+
+$ nm -Pg libcrypto.so | grep __ctype
+__ctype B 0011659c
+__ctype2 U
+
+Curiously, __ctype2 is undefined, in spite of being declared in
+/usr/include/ctype.h in exactly the same way as __ctype.
+
+Any information helping to solve this issue would be deeply
+appreciated.
+
+NOTE: building non-shared doesn't come with this problem.
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