Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:09:18 -0500 | From | Robert Dewar <> | Subject | Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag |
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Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 05:12:07PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> It's a kernel bug, and it needs to be fixed. > > I'm not convinced. It's been that way for 15 years, it's that way in > the BSD kernels, at that point it's a feature. The bug is in the > documentation, nowhere else. And in gcc for blindly trusting the > documentation.
I agree, it reminds me of Burroughs on the 5500 believing the Fortran standard which carefully allowed for a stack based implementation of Fortran, Algol-style, unfortunately no real Fortran programs worked with this semantics, and it was one of the factors contributing the demise of the 5500. > > OG. >
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