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

Richard Guenther wrote: 

A patched GCC IMHO makes only sense if it is always-on, yet another option
won't help in corner cases.  And corner cases is exactly what people seem
to care about.  For this reason that we have this single release, 4.3.0, that
behaves "bad" is already a problem.


The option will help embedded vendors who can guarantee that it's not a problem.

-hpa

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