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Message-ID: <871w6ogjnu.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date: 06 Mar 2008 12:45:57 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: Andrew Haley <aph@...hat.com>
Cc: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@...el32.net>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Michael Matz <matz@...e.de>,
Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@...opsys.COM>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
gcc@....gnu.org
Subject: Re: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag
Andrew Haley <aph@...hat.com> writes:
>
> I suppose one could apply the precautionary principle, but those systems that
> don't update kernels won't update gcc either, so the solution won't work.
You seem to assume that running a gcc 4.3 compiled binary requires a
gcc update. That is not necessarily true.
-Andi
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