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

Jakub Jelinek jakub@redhat.com
Thu Mar 6 16:27:00 GMT 2008


On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 07:50:12AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> H.J. Lu wrote:
> >I agree with it. There is no  right or wrong here Let's start from
> >scratch and figure out
> >what is the best way to handle this, assuming we are defining a new psABI.

BTW, just tested icc and icc doesn't generate cld either (so it matches the
new gcc behavior).
char buf1[32], buf2[32];
void bar (void);
void foo (void)
{
  __builtin_memset (buf1, 0, 32);
  bar ();
  __builtin_memset (buf2, 0, 32);
}

	Jakub



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