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

[Olivier Galibert]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:43:33PM +0100, Michael Matz wrote:
> FWIW I don't think it's a release blocker for 4.3.0.  The error is arcane 
> and happens seldomly if at all.  And only on unfixed kernels.  A program 
> needs to do std explicitely, which most don't do _and_ get hit by a signal 
> while begin in a std region.  This happens so seldom that it didn't occur 
> in building the next openSuSE 11.0, and it continually builds packages 
> with 4.3 since months.

How would you know whether it has happened?

  OG.