These fixes were interesting in a morbid sort of way. I thought the FixedSizeAllocatorWithCleanup specializations faithfully reproduced semantics but I was wrong on Win32 and Sparc. Also see Commit e054d36dc8.
It seems there was another requirement or dependency that we missed, but it was not readily apparent. If I am parsing results correctly (which I may not be), it appears the bit twiddling using 8 byte alignment had more influence on alignment than I originally thought based on use of CRYPTOPP_BOOL_ALIGN16 and T_Align16. Or maybe the alignment attributes specified by CRYPTOPP_ALIGN_DATA are not being honored like they should for stack allocations.
This check-in avoids some uses of x86 movdqa (aligned) in favor of movdqu (unaligned). The uses were concentrated on memory operands which were 8-byte aligned instead of 16-byte aligned. It is not clear to me how the specializations lost 8-bytes of alignment. The check-in also enlists CRYPTOPP_ASSERT to tell us when there's a problem so we don't need to go hunting for bugs.
Currently the CRYPTOPP_BOOL_XXX macros set the macro value to 0 or 1. If we remove setting the 0 value (the #else part of the expression), then the self tests speed up by about 0.3 seconds. I can't explain it, but I have observed it repeatedly.
This check-in prepares for the removal in Upstream master
trap.h and CRYPTOPP_ASSERT has existed for over a year in Master. We deferred on the cut-over waiting for a minor version bump (5.7). We have to use it now due to CVE-2016-7420
- added AuthenticatedSymmetricCipher interface class and Filter wrappers
- added CCM, GCM (with SSE2 assembly), CMAC, and SEED
- improved AES speed on x86 and x64
- removed WORD64_AVAILABLE; compiler 64-bit int support is now required