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SubjectRe: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:10:12PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Michael Matz <matz@suse.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.

We had a similar argument about the undefinedness of signed int
overflow. That's what the standard says, yet code that assumes
otherwise is pervasive, including in gcc itself.

If a standard is widely violated in a very consistent way, the violation
in effect becomes standard.


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