Bug#325205: please provide sha256sum, sha384sum and sha512sum

[Michael Stone]

There's one more coreutils sha384 failure on s390:
http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=coreutils&ver=5.97-3&arch=s390&stamp=1155033735&file=log&as=raw

ISTR that s390 handles 64 bit badly (is that right?), in which case
sha384 & sha512 will be non-starters on that arch (also right?). One
possibility is to just disable those two algorithms on that arch.

Mike Stone

[Adam Thornton]

Post by Michael Stone
http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?
&pkg=coreutils&ver=5.97-3&arch=s390&stamp=1155033735&file=log&as=raw
ISTR that s390 handles 64 bit badly (is that right?), in which case
sha384 & sha512 will be non-starters on that arch (also right?).
One possibility is to just disable those two algorithms on that arch.

Not sure what you mean by "handles 64 bit badly"; the s390 has a 31-
bit address space while s390x (which Debian does not yet support) has
a 64-bit address space and 64-bit registers.

64-bit arithmetic should not give you incorrect answers, providing
you have data types set up to handle that arithmetic.

OTOH, I don't know how widely used sha384 and sha512 really are. I
haven't used them (on s390 or elsewhere).

Adam