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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:05:51 +0100
From: "Magnum, P.I." <rawsmooth@...dband.net>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Extended MPI support
>> replace MPI_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG with just MPI_UNSIGNED_LONG on line 154 of
>> status.c and all is golden.
>
> Thanks. MPI_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG works fine with MPICH2, are you using
> OpenMPI? I'm not sure you're safe though. I'm a complete noob at
> datatypes on different platforms, but I expect MPI_UNSIGNED_LONG to be
> just 32 bit on some, while LONG_LONG should be 64 bit. Maybe on 64-bit
> systems MPI_UNSIGNED_LONG will always do?
I just uploaded a third version of the patch. It avoids the problem by
performing the MPI_Reduce() *after* converting the crypt count to cps.
This way it's safe to use a 32 bit int.
Tested on OpenMPI as well as MPICH2, seems to work fine now.
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