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

From: Olivier Galibert
Date: Wed Mar 05 2008 - 18:17:41 EST


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.
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