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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 05:38:32 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: 1.7.8-jumbo-6-RC* on Mac OS X

Simon,

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:32:19PM +0200, Simon Marechal wrote:
> Le 21/09/2011 18:42, Solar Designer a ?crit :
> >I suspect that some constructor function in some library corrupts our
> >initialized static data.
> I'm not sure why this has not been considered, so I might have skipped 
> something, but why not just break on write to find out what is 
> corrupting it ?

I tried the "break on write" approach at an earlier time:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-dev/2011/09/21/20

I did not try it on opt_errors[1], which appeared to be corrupted on a
cut-down 1.7.7-jumbo-6 tree.  Maybe I should have, but by the time I
spotted this, I was already running out of time for making the release,
which I did not want to postpone for another day.

Alexander

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