some odd problems with MD5 on Alpha

[designer seven <designer_7 yahoo com>]

Hello,

I'm hoping someone with better programming skills can
figure this one out. I downloaded the reference code
from RSA for MD5. After building it with egcs, I
noticed that the resulting hashes were wrong. (in
comparison to the results of md5sum)

I took the same code and built it on an UltraSPARC at
work, and the resulting hash was correct. From that,
I'm guessing that it might have something to do with
the Alpha....??

Can someone take a look at the ref code for MD5 from
ftp.rsa.com ??? 

By the way, in time tests, I gained 5-fold increase in
speed by including -mcpu=ev56 -Wa,-m21164a. What is so
special about these switches and the MD5 algorithm
that would make such a drastic performance increase?

Thanks for any knowledge anyone can share...
D.

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