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

Olivier Galibert galibert@pobox.com
Wed Mar 5 23:13:00 GMT 2008


On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:07:39AM +0100, Michael Matz wrote:
> For security problems I prefer fixes over work-arounds.  The fix lies in 
> the kernel, the work-around in gcc.

Incorrect.  The bugs are in the ABI documentation and in gcc, and the
fixes should be done there.  Doing it in the kernel is the workaround.

  OG.



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