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From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@...>
To: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>
Cc: Chris Lattner <clattner@...>, Michael Matz <matz@...>, Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@...>, Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@...>, Jan Hubicka <hubicka@...>, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <gcc@...>
Subject: Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag
Date: Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 9:51 am

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 05:12:07PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

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.

  OG.


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Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt..., H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Mar 6, 11:50 am)
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Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt..., Robert Dewar, (Thu Mar 6, 3:25 pm)
Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt..., Florian Weimer, (Fri Mar 7, 4:28 am)
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