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

Florian Weimer
2008-03-07T08:30:11Z

* Robert Dewar:

> again, in the real world, there are MANY projects that are nothing
> like this interactive when it comes to moving to new versions of
> operating systems.

Sure, but how many of those get to see software compiled with GCC 4.3?

If this has any real impact, it's more likely to show up in current
systems, where both kernel, libc and GCC are regularly updated, and GCC
happens to receive an update before the kernel.