Is that the one where they check for endianness changes while the program is running? One of those moments where I was stunned by the stupidity of what I was hearing.
The OSSL outlook is that both the OS and the hardware were designed by untrustworthy, paranoid, schizophrenics who wanted OSSL crash and burn. I wouldn't expect intelligence, sanity, rhyme, or reason.
Yep. Hearing that solution to the problem was just beyond reason. Its like they didn't just set some compile flags and constants for the architecture, but decided that their code had to calculate it every time the variable is needed. The line about finding if /dev/null moved was also pretty scary.
I remember cracking up then forwarding it to all kinds of people and forums. Along the lines of "remember this" if you try to justify trusting the OpenSSL codebase for anything.
