Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Mar 2008 22:59:21 +0100 (CET) | From | Michael Matz <> | Subject | Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag |
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Hi,
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Chris Lattner wrote:
> > On Mar 5, 2008, at 1:34 PM, H. Peter Anvin 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()? > > How hard is it to change the kernel signal entry path from "pushf" to > "pushf;cld"? Problem solved, no?
The problem is with old kernels, which by definition stay unfixed.
Ciao, Michael.
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