Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Mar 2008 00:07:39 +0100 (CET) | From | Michael Matz <> | Subject | Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag |
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Hi,
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.
For security problems I prefer fixes over work-arounds. The fix lies in the kernel, the work-around in gcc.
Ciao, Michael.
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