Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933530AbYCEXIz (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:08:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932951AbYCEXC4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:02:56 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:35853 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932943AbYCEXCz (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:02:55 -0500 Message-ID: <47CF25A5.5060709@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:58:45 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Matz CC: David Miller , richard.guenther@gmail.com, Joe.Buck@synopsys.com, hubicka@ucw.cz, aurelien@aurel32.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag References: <84fc9c000803051332q2f2eedeej7d3c0509e698cabf@mail.gmail.com> <47CF11D6.7070901@zytor.com> <84fc9c000803051340i13559c63tcf56eb828d000802@mail.gmail.com> <20080305.141622.80343656.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 564 Lines: 15 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. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/