This article is from the SSH - Secure Shell FAQ, by Thomas Koenig Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de with numerous contributions by others.
For Alpha OSF/1 1.3.2, this is due to a bug in the vendor-supplied
compiler with maximum optimization.
Turn off all optimization for ssh-keygen, or use gcc. Gcc 2.7.2 is
known to have problems on the Alpha, however.
 
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