[geeks] Solaris PERL and OpenSSL compiled with the same compiler?

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Ido Dubrawsky wrote:

> "Good. Both OpenSSL and perl seem to have been compiled with the same
> compiler."
>
> Which I found to be very interesting since I built that OpenSSL with
> GCC 3.3 after installing Solaris (and I'm using the stock Solaris perl
> install).  Any- one else seen this?

Perhaps it's a heuristic test for that really nasty register-packing bug
that GCC exhibited on some 64-bit architectures for nearly a decade,
and, upon not finding a problem, declared that they must've been
compiled with the same compiler.

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