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Jeffrey Walton 2018-08-06 23:04:10 -04:00
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@ -1075,6 +1075,12 @@ bool TestAltivecOps()
return true;
}
// These tests may seem superflous, but we really want to test the
// Altivec/POWER4 implementation. That does not happen when POWER7
// or POWER8 is available because we use POWER7's unaligned loads
// and stores with POWER8's AES, SHA, etc. These tests enage
// Altivec/POWER4 without POWER7, like on an old PowerMac.
//********** Unaligned loads and stores **********//
CRYPTOPP_ALIGN_DATA(16)