OT: PHP 32 bit numbers security issue

OT: PHP 32 bit numbers security issue

Nadav Har'El nyh at math.technion.ac.il
Wed Jan 5 16:18:54 IST 2011


On Wed, Jan 05, 2011, Nadav Har'El wrote about "Re: OT: PHP 32 bit numbers security issue":
> what does it have to do with 32 vs 64 bits?

I think I can answer this one myself: It appears that for x86-64 gcc, the
default is to use SSE instructions, while the i386 target defaults to using
the good (?) old 80387 instruction.

Nadav.

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