Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:21:43 -0800 | From | David Daney <> | 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 10:43:33PM +0100, Michael Matz wrote: >> FWIW I don't think it's a release blocker for 4.3.0. The error is arcane >> and happens seldomly if at all. And only on unfixed kernels. A program >> needs to do std explicitely, which most don't do _and_ get hit by a signal >> while begin in a std region. This happens so seldom that it didn't occur >> in building the next openSuSE 11.0, and it continually builds packages >> with 4.3 since months. > > How would you know whether it has happened? >
The same way you do with other bugs: You would observe unexpected behavior.
In this case probably either corrupted memory or a SIGSEGV.
David Daney
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