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

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Date:	Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:10:12 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	matz@...e.de
Cc:	hpa@...or.com, richard.guenther@...il.com, Joe.Buck@...opsys.com,
	hubicka@....cz, 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

From: Michael Matz <matz@...e.de>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 00:07:39 +0100 (CET)

> The fix lies in the kernel, the work-around in gcc.

This depends upon how you interpret this ABI situation.

There is at least some agreement that how things have
actually been implemented by these kernels for more
than 15 years trumps whatever a paper standard states.
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