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

H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com
Wed Mar 5 23:02:00 GMT 2008


Michael Matz wrote:
> 
> Many bugs are a big issue to people who actually hit them, and we had (and 
> probably still have) far nastier corner case miscompilations here and 
> there and nevertheless released.  It never was the end of the world :)
> 

This is the sort of stuff that security holes are made from.

	-hpa



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