From d500f04400d0acc83fe5270da860764a7d19deee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Levitte Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 10:33:27 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add information on the 'ias' port for OpenVMS Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz Reviewed-by: Hugo Landau Reviewed-by: Paul Dale (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/20983) --- NOTES-VMS.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/NOTES-VMS.md b/NOTES-VMS.md index e27f3d682a..566a04d2a9 100644 --- a/NOTES-VMS.md +++ b/NOTES-VMS.md @@ -83,6 +83,23 @@ When done, we recommend that you turn that flag back off: $ set image /flag=nocall_debug [.test]evp_test.exe +About assembler acceleration +---------------------------- + +OpenSSL has assembler acceleration for a number of BIGNUM and crypto +routines. The VMS config targets tries to look for a selection of +assemblers and will use what they find. If none of the assemblers are +found, OpenSSL will be built as if `no-asm` was configured. + +### For Itanium / IA64 / I64 + +- There is only one assembler, a port of Intel's `ias`, found in the + HP Open Source Tools CD, available through [DECUSlib](http://www.decuslib.com). + It's assumed to be set up as per the instructions, where `disk` and + `dir` are expected to be adapted to local conditions: + + $ ias :== $disk:[dir]iasi64.exe + Checking the distribution -------------------------