On 01/07/2011 07:46 PM, Jitesh Shah wrote:
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>> This must be a bug in sha512sum -- it shouldn't be affected by alignment.
>
> I am inclined to think it might be compiler related. Andy's package is
> the same version as mine, his works, mine does not. The only thing that
> is likely to be different is the build environment.
That and the development board. You are using a sheevaplug.
It is also likely that Andy's hardware does fixups for misaligned accesses.
That can be done transparently in hardware without a performance hit?
Gordan