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

[Robert Dewar]

Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 05:12:07PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> It's a kernel bug, and it needs to be fixed.
> 
> I'm not convinced.  It's been that way for 15 years, it's that way in
> the BSD kernels, at that point it's a feature.  The bug is in the
> documentation, nowhere else.  And in gcc for blindly trusting the
> documentation.

I agree, it reminds me of Burroughs on the 5500 believing the
Fortran standard which carefully allowed for a stack based
implementation of Fortran, Algol-style, unfortunately no real
Fortran programs worked with this semantics, and it was one of
the factors contributing the demise of the 5500.
> 
>   OG.
>