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