Re: [PATCH net-next v5 07/20] zinc: Poly1305 generic C implementations and selftest

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 3:39 AM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > +     const size_t num = ctx->num % POLY1305_BLOCK_SIZE;
> > 0 <= ctx->num < POLY1305_BLOCK_SIZE, so no need to mod by POLY1305_BLOCK_SIZE.
> > > +     size_t num = ctx->num % POLY1305_BLOCK_SIZE;
> > Same here.
>
> I know, but I was having a hard time convincing gcc-8 of that
> invariant, and it was warning me. Perhaps this is something they
> fixed, though, between 8.1 and 8.2 though. I'll check back and adjust
> accordingly.

This was changed here:
https://git.zx2c4.com/WireGuard/commit/?id=37f114a73ba37219b00a66f0a51219a696599745

I can't reproduce with 8.2 anymore, so perhaps I should remove it now.
Unless you'd like to avoid a warning on old compilers. Since there's
no difference in speed, probably we should avoid the 8.1 warning and
leave it be?