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

David Miller
2008-03-05T22:21:49Z

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 00:13:04 +0200

> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:59:21PM +0100, Michael Matz wrote:
> > The problem is with old kernels, which by definition stay unfixed.
>
> Compiling older kernels with new gcc versions has never been supported.

Adrian we're talking about userland binaries compiled by
gcc-4.3, not the kernel.

Please follow the discussion if you'd like to contribute.

Thanks.