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Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 12:03:08 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Large stack alignment
On 2015-09-08 21:45, magnum wrote:
> /*
> * I had to place this in a separate function to avoid having the unaligned
> * branch optimized away (even using -O0), since gcc is totally convinced it
> * simply can't be unaligned!
> */
> void out(char *pt)
> {
> if ((size_t)pt & 31)
> printf("%s unaligned!\n", pt);
> else
> puts(pt);
> }
Come to think of it, this is troubling: It suggests that the macro form
of mem_align() might also be optimized away, doesn't it?!
Also, I'm puzzled anything is optimized away at -O0. But it was - there
wasn't even any "%s unaligned!\n" string in the assembly output.
magnum
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