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Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag


On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:34 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> 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()?

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."

Richard.


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