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Improvement
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Resolution: Fixed
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Currently Funtoo uses Gentoo's OpenSSL ebuilds. One thing about those ebuilds does not sit right with me. If we take the most recent version (1.0.1g), and look at lines 111-120:
# See if our toolchain supports __uint128_t. If so, it's 64bit
# friendly and can use the nicely optimized code paths. #460790
local ec_nistp_64_gcc_128
# Disable it for now though #469976
#if ! use bindist ; then
# echo "__uint128_t i;" > "${T}"/128.c
# if ${CC} ${CFLAGS} -c "${T}"/128.c -o /dev/null >&/dev/null ; then
# ec_nistp_64_gcc_128="enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128"
# fi
#fi
This choice has been made due to Gentoo bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469976
I think the rationale for this is astounding and want to suggest Funtoo to do it differently. Suggested alternative:
# See if our toolchain supports __uint128_t. If so, it's 64bit
# friendly and can use the nicely optimized code paths. #460790
local ec_nistp_64_gcc_128
if ! use bindist ; then
echo "__uint128_t i;" > "${T}"/128.c
if ${CC} ${CFLAGS} -c "${T}"/128.c -o /dev/null >&/dev/null ; then
ec_nistp_64_gcc_128="enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128"
fi
fi
