From db610cb29cd2658c4feb60f4899856f0ac5e9dab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Polyakov Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 22:05:12 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] CHANGES: mention removal of solaris-x86-cc. Reviewed-by: Rich Salz --- CHANGES | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index 8b0e21ffdf..9fc7bfb357 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -4,7 +4,14 @@ Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.0a [xx XXX xxxx] - *) + *) solaris-x86-cc, i.e. 32-bit configuration with vendor compiler, + had to be removed. Primary reason is that vendor assembler can't + assemble our modules with -KPIC flag. As result it, assembly + support, was not even available as option. But its lack means + lack of side-channel resistant code, which is incompatible with + security by todays standards. Fortunately gcc is readily available + prepackaged option, which we firmly point at... + [Andy Polyakov] Changes between 1.0.2h and 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016] -- 2.40.0