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

[Chris Lattner]

On Mar 5, 2008, at 1:34 PM, H. Peter Anvin 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()?

How hard is it to change the kernel signal entry path from "pushf" to  
"pushf;cld"?  Problem solved, no?

-Chris