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authorRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2018-05-22 23:09:01 +0200
committerRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2018-05-23 11:57:04 +0200
commitb501ab6bee469eafb8b67ac38896bb689ab632fa (patch)
tree1120834410e6703ccdeaa0e7fccf7cadd5cff08e /INSTALL
parent8cc1dc3632ee685f7609c4923c7fb6e75154ea0d (diff)
downloadopenssl-new-b501ab6bee469eafb8b67ac38896bb689ab632fa.tar.gz
INSTALL: Provide better documentation for enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128
Reviewed-by: Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/6328)
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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