[gnutls-devel] gnutls 3.4.10 testsuite error on amd64 (SSSE3 cipher tests failed)

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2016-03-17 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at gnutls.org> wrote:
[...]
> Correct, and the statement is in a way precise :) Only VIA options
> cannot be enabled on an Intel CPU.

;-)

> Let's fix that then. Does the
> attached patch solves the issue in the system without ssse3?

Thank you, works for me:

#previously failing machine:
(sid_amd64-dchroot)ametzler at barriere:~/GNUTLS/gnutls28-3.4.10/tests/slow$ GNUTLS_DEBUG_LEVEL=9 GNUTLS_CPUID_OVERRIDE=0x4 ./hash-large  --verbose --debug=7777
gnutls[2]: Enabled GnuTLS 3.4.10 logging...
gnutls[2]: SSSE3 acceleration requested but not available
gnutls_hash_fast(SHA256) 4295032831 OK
gnutls_hash_fast(SHA256) 4295032831 OK
gnutls_hash_fast(SHA1) OK
gnutls_hmac_fast(SHA1) OK
Self test `./hash-large' finished with 0 errors

#SSE3 supporting machine:
(sid)ametzler at argenau:/tmp/GNUTLS/gnutls-3.4.10/tests/slow$ GNUTLS_DEBUG_LEVEL=9 GNUTLS_CPUID_OVERRIDE=0x4 ./hash-large  --verbose --debug=7777
gnutls[2]: Enabled GnuTLS 3.4.10 logging...
gnutls[2]: Intel SSSE3 was detected
gnutls_hash_fast(SHA256) 4295032831 OK
gnutls_hash_fast(SHA256) 4295032831 OK
gnutls_hash_fast(SHA1) OK
gnutls_hmac_fast(SHA1) OK
Self test `./hash-large' finished with 0 errors

cu Andreas
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