CHANGES: mention removal of solaris-x86-cc.
authorAndy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 20:05:12 +0000 (22:05 +0200)
committerAndy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 21:21:33 +0000 (23:21 +0200)
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
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  Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.0a [xx XXX xxxx]
 
-  *)
+  *) solaris-x86-cc, i.e. 32-bit configuration with vendor compiler,
+     had to be removed. Primary reason is that vendor assembler can't
+     assemble our modules with -KPIC flag. As result it, assembly
+     support, was not even available as option. But its lack means
+     lack of side-channel resistant code, which is incompatible with
+     security by todays standards. Fortunately gcc is readily available
+     prepackaged option, which we firmly point at...
+     [Andy Polyakov]
 
  Changes between 1.0.2h and 1.1.0  [25 Aug 2016]