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

Olivier Galibert
2008-03-06T14:12:36Z

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 03:03:15PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Olivier Galibert wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 05:12:07PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >>It's a kernel bug, and it needs to be fixed.
> >
> >I'm not convinced. It's been that way for 15 years, it's that way in
> >the BSD kernels, at that point it's a feature. The bug is in the
> >documentation, nowhere else. And in gcc for blindly trusting the
> >documentation.
>
> No, the bug *in the kernel* was already present (if you had a signal
> raised during a call to memmove). It's just more visible with GCC 4.3.

I'm curious, since when paper documentation became the Truth and
reality became a bug?

OG.