bug in toolchain on alpha?

[Stephen Zander <gibreel@pobox.com>]

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Are there any known problems with the toolchain on the alpha
platform?.  While trying to diagnose bug #131293, I've run into
something very strange.  Either something is generating coreect
argument passing code or gdb is rather hrribly broken.  Consider:

(gdb) bt
#0  ElGamalSigPrivateKey::ElGamalSigPrivateKey (this=0x11ffff530, 
    __in_chrg=543177808, rng=@0x100, pbits=544719648) at elgamal.cpp:243
#1  0x120183cc4 in cElGamalSig::GenerateKeys (this=0x11ffff530, 
    retPrivate=@0x11ffff5f0, retPublic=@0x11ffff5f8) at crypto.cpp:1159
#2  0x120195388 in cKeyFile::GenerateKeys (this=0x11ffff5e0, keySize=1024, 
    passphrase=0x120783b30 "", passphraseLen=0) at keyfile.cpp:368

and

(gdb) p *mpData
$2 = {mKeyBits = 1024, mAction = SIGN, mpPrivateKey = 0x0, mpPublicKey = 0x0, 
  mSHA = {<IteratedHash<unsigned int>> = {<HashModule> = {_vptr. = 0x5}, 
      _vb.HashModule = 0x120784c38, blockSize = 64, countLo = 0, countHi = 0, 
      data = {size = 16, ptr = 0x120784c50}, digest = {size = 5, 
        ptr = 0x120784ca0}, _vptr. = 0x1205a59f0}, <No data fields>}, 
  mpRNG = 0x120784cc0}

Line 1159 of crypto.cpp, (the middle item in the bt above) is

ElGamalSigPrivateKey* pNewPrivateKey = new ElGamalSigPrivateKey(*mpData->mpRNG, mpData->mKeyBits);

when you look at the contents of mpData you see that the mKeyBits
entry is 1024 and the mpRNG entry is 0x120784cc0.  Yet in the
backtrace above those values become 544719648 & 0x100 respectively in
frame #0 where the ElGamalSigPrivateKey construcor is invoked.

I've built and run this on lully.d.o which shows the following tool
versions:

ii  gcc            2.95.4-9       The GNU C compiler.
ii  binutils       2.11.92.0.12.3 The GNU assembler, linker and binary utiliti
ii  g++            2.95.4-9       The GNU C++ compiler.

What's going on here?

-- 
Stephen

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-- 
Stephen

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