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

[Andrew Haley]

Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 03:03:15PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> 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.
>> No, the bug *in the kernel* was already present (if you had a signal 
>> raised during a call to memmove).  It's just more visible with GCC 4.3.
> 
> I'm curious, since when paper documentation became the Truth and
> reality became a bug?

Isn't that the definition of a bug?  That a program does not meet
its specification?

Andrew.

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