Re: segmentation fault on AIX with code working on Linux & Mac OS X

> Hello alltogether,
>
> I'm trying to run the tools pemtrans (in order to import openSSL's RSA
> private key and certificate into a cryptlib certificate store) on AIX.
> The URL for the tool is http://toroid.org/ams/pemtrans (if anyone
> looks for it)
> The tool, linked against cryptlib 3.3.2 under Linux and/or Mac OS X
> works fine, but under AIX 5.3 with GCC 4.2.0, the program segfaults
> right at the call of the function "cryptSetAttributeString( pKey,
> CRYPT_CTXINFO_KEY_COMPONENTS, &rsa, sizeof( CRYPT_PKCINFO_RSA ) );".
> My first thought was it's all about the endianess of the openSSL
> bignum values, but they seem to be OK, I've printed out all the
> corresponding bits and bytes: they seem correct. I've traced down
> cryptlib to find a problem, but I'm not involved so deeply (at some
> point I was in some kernel and message queueing stuff of cryptlib
> which I don't understand).
> Does anyone have any clue why this program fails on AIX (which is
> running on a RS/6000 CPU, perhaps it's really about the endianess) but
> works on Linux and Mac OS X (both Intel platform)?
>