Re: OpenSSL vs. getauxval()

2018-09-29 Thread Christos Zoulas
In article <20180929224713.ga14...@mail.duskware.de>, Martin Husemann wrote: >Hey folks, > >openssl on arm uses a weak symbol reference to "getauxval", and if the >symbol is available, calls it to get hardware information about the >current cpu. > >We never make this kind of hardware information

OpenSSL vs. getauxval()

2018-09-29 Thread Martin Husemann
Hey folks, openssl on arm uses a weak symbol reference to "getauxval", and if the symbol is available, calls it to get hardware information about the current cpu. We never make this kind of hardware information availble via flags in the exec auxval vector, but use sysctl instead. We also do not p