Re: dnscurve updates

Thus said Matthew Dempsky on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:25:44 PDT:

> During compile time, NaCl  automatically benchmarks how fast different
> implementations run on the host using different compilers and compiler
> flags and chooses the fastest one. The benchmarking, however, requires
> system-specific code, and NaCl 20090405  just didn't include that code
> for OpenBSD.

It looks like there are other  pieces missing. In the following case, it
would appear  that a different  method for allocating aligned  memory is
being  used than  has  been  used in  other  programs  written by  Prof.
Bernstein. Specifically,  it uses posix_memalign which  doesn't exist on
OpenBSD:

=== Wed Jan  6 20:49:54 MST 2010 === x86 crypto_box/curve25519xsalsa20poly1305 measuring
=== Wed Jan  6 20:50:06 MST 2010 === starting commandline/nacl-sha256
=== Wed Jan  6 20:50:06 MST 2010 === commandline/nacl-sha256 x86 gcc -m32 -O -fomit-frame-pointer
/tmp//cctrMqzj.o(.text+0x163): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `posix_memalign'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Andy
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