[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#699692: Bug#699692: "Illegal instruction" when installing (creating certificate) with Wheezy's version 1.0.1c-4 of openssl on a system with Cyrix MII / IBM 6x86

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 01:18:10AM +0100, Hans-Juergen Mauser wrote:
> Hello Kurt,
> 
> thanks for your support and for providing the packages! This made
> testing for me very easy - and I can tell you that it works
> perfectly.
> 
> Setting the environment variable was NOT a full workaround as there
> are processes like postgresql which use the libssl internally and
> from a non-interactive shell, which prevented postgresql even from
> starting as it calculates a key at each startup.
> 
> By the way, the internal capability flags have the following values:
> 
> OPENSSL_ia32cap_P[0] = 0x0080A535 (same as before)
> OPENSSL_ia32cap_P[1] = 0x0
> 
> Was the value of OPENSSL_ia32cap_P[1] a "random" value previously
> due to wrong assumptions when reading?

What I understand was that OPENSSL_ia32cap_P[1] comes from ecx,
and that was unititialised and not set by your processor.  And
they now ititialised it to 0.


Kurt