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

From: Jakub Jelinek
Date: Thu Mar 06 2008 - 11:40:35 EST


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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