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

From: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
To: bunk at kernel dot org
Cc: matz at suse dot de, clattner at apple dot com, hpa at zytor dot com, richard dot guenther at gmail dot com, Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com, hubicka at ucw dot cz, aurelien at aurel32 dot net, linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:21:33 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag
References: <738B72DB-A1D6-43F8-813A-E49688D05771@apple.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803052258530.20583@wotan.suse.de> <20080305221303.GA937@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 00:13:04 +0200

> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:59:21PM +0100, Michael Matz wrote:
> > The problem is with old kernels, which by definition stay unfixed.
> 
> Compiling older kernels with new gcc versions has never been supported.

Adrian we're talking about userland binaries compiled by
gcc-4.3, not the kernel.

Please follow the discussion if you'd like to contribute.

Thanks.

References:
- Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag
  - From: Chris Lattner
- Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag
  - From: Michael Matz
- Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag
  - From: Adrian Bunk

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