Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:16:22 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag | From | David Miller <> |
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From: "Richard Guenther" <richard.guenther@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 22:40:59 +0100
> Right. So this problem is over-exaggerated. It's not like > "any binary you create on that system will be broken on any > other existing system."
I will be sure to hunt you down to help debug when someone reports that once every few weeks their multi-day simulation gives incorrect results :-)
This is one of those cases where the bug is going to be a huge issue to people who actually hit it, and since we know about the problem, knowingly shipping something in that state is unforgivable.
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