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

H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06T21:01:04Z

Richard Guenther wrote:
>
> A patched GCC IMHO makes only sense if it is always-on, yet another option
> won't help in corner cases. And corner cases is exactly what people seem
> to care about. For this reason that we have this single release, 4.3.0, that
> behaves "bad" is already a problem.
>

The option will help embedded vendors who can guarantee that it's not a
problem.

-hpa