[Python-Dev] cpython: Force 32bit Keccak implementation on SPARC. It look like the Solaris CC

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:53:51 +0200 (CEST)
christian.heimes <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b397b0c08f69
> changeset:   79717:b397b0c08f69
> parent:      79715:3465ef48d0f5
> user:        Christian Heimes <christian at cheimes.de>
> date:        Sun Oct 14 02:52:01 2012 +0200
> summary:
>   Force 32bit Keccak implementation on SPARC. It look like the Solaris CC compiler doesn't like the address alignment.

I think SPARC (the architecture) disallows unaligned accesses to
memory. I don't think it is specific to the Solaris CC compiler.

Regards

Antoine.