Bug#404739: Processed: reassign 404739 to gss

[Simon Josefsson]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:

>> Has this problem been seen on any archs other than amd64, where it
>> fails the testsuite and therefore generates no binaries?
>
> No.

I just realized that I were wrong here, and that this may affect the
choice of severity level.

The problem applies to all architectures where sizeof(int) <
sizeof(size_t), which includes ia64 and maybe other 64-bit platforms.

The reason the self test didn't trigger the crash on non-amd64
platforms is probably due to optimizations and random luck -- the
amd64 build only broke when -O2 was used.  The code is still buggy,
the self-test doesn't exhaust all possible uses of the library that
may happen in the wild.

/Simon