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authorXi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>2012-08-14 18:54:40 -0400
committerWerner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>2012-08-16 10:48:03 +0200
commit2c54c4da19d3a79e9f749740828026dd41f0521a (patch)
treeacd346d2c038018c59db3697cc07e8fb0d36e073 /mpi/mpi-pow.c
parent2196728e2252917849c1be94417258076767021b (diff)
downloadlibgcrypt-2c54c4da19d3a79e9f749740828026dd41f0521a.tar.gz
Replace deliberate division by zero with _gcry_divide_by_zero.
* mpi/mpi-pow.c: Replace 1 / msize. * mpi/mpih-div.c: Replace 1 / dsize. * src/misc.c: Add _gcry_divide_by_zero. -- 1) Division by zero doesn't "provoke a signal" on architectures like PowerPC. 2) C compilers like clang will optimize away these divisions, even though the code tries "to make the compiler not remove" them. This patch redirects these cases to _gcry_divide_by_zero.
Diffstat (limited to 'mpi/mpi-pow.c')
-rw-r--r--mpi/mpi-pow.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mpi/mpi-pow.c b/mpi/mpi-pow.c
index 33bbebe3..891a7e65 100644
--- a/mpi/mpi-pow.c
+++ b/mpi/mpi-pow.c
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ gcry_mpi_powm (gcry_mpi_t res,
ep = expo->d;
if (!msize)
- msize = 1 / msize; /* Provoke a signal. */
+ _gcry_divide_by_zero();
if (!esize)
{