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

[Michael Matz]

Hi,

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> 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.

For security problems I prefer fixes over work-arounds.  The fix lies in 
the kernel, the work-around in gcc.


Ciao,
Michael.