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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 05:12:07PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
It's a kernel bug, and it needs to be fixed. 

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.


I agree, it reminds me of Burroughs on the 5500 believing the
Fortran standard which carefully allowed for a stack based
implementation of Fortran, Algol-style, unfortunately no real
Fortran programs worked with this semantics, and it was one of
the factors contributing the demise of the 5500.

OG.


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