linux-kernel - Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag

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Date:	Wed, 5 Mar 2008 22:40:59 +0100
From:	"Richard Guenther" <richard.guenther@...il.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	"Joe Buck" <Joe.Buck@...opsys.com>, "Michael Matz" <matz@...e.de>,
	"Jan Hubicka" <hubicka@....cz>,
	"Aurelien Jarno" <aurelien@...el32.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gcc@....gnu.org
Subject: Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:34 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> Richard Guenther wrote:
>  >
>  > We didn't yet run into this issue and build openSUSE with 4.3 since more than
>  > three month.
>  >
>
>  Well, how often do you take a trap inside an overlapping memmove()?

Right.  So this problem is over-exaggerated.  It's not like
"any binary you create on that system will be broken on any
other existing system."

Richard.
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