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

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Mar 05 2008 - 18:08:56 EST


Michael Matz wrote:

Many bugs are a big issue to people who actually hit them, and we had (and probably still have) far nastier corner case miscompilations here and there and nevertheless released. It never was the end of the world :)


This is the sort of stuff that security holes are made from.

-hpa
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