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

    I agree, it reminds me of Burroughs on the 5500 believing the
    Fortran standard which carefully allowed for a stack based
    implementation of Fortran, Algol-style, unfortunately no real
    Fortran programs worked with this semantics, and it was one of
    the factors contributing the demise of the 5500.
    >
    > OG.
    >



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