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

H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-05T23:08:55Z

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