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David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: > > Because the compiler knows things about the inputs and can > thus apply optimizations that a static implementation in glibc > that has to handle all forms of inputs cannot. On an unrelated note, I wonder if distros will be treating this with the same level of urgency as security vulnerabilities, especially in light of Shamir's recent note on maths errors. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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