Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt directionflag

[H. Peter Anvin]

Chris Lattner wrote:
> On Mar 5, 2008, at 1:34 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > Richard Guenther wrote:
> > > We didn't yet run into this issue and build openSUSE with 4.3 since 
> > > more than
> > > three month.
> >
> > Well, how often do you take a trap inside an overlapping memmove()?
>
> How hard is it to change the kernel signal entry path from "pushf" to 
> "pushf;cld"?  Problem solved, no?

Not quite, but fixing it in the kernel is easy.

Still breaks for running on all old kernels.

	-hpa
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