Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934378AbYCFODm (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:03:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755019AbYCFODZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:03:25 -0500 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.229]:30119 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754203AbYCFODY (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:03:24 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:newsgroups:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:sender; b=Dl+guAe/xZrqJm6QdnjPw4CudqMlzGYTCjGqvZKCaK3pzsAyQEDYS6JMJ7v90QOmwAcYyOI38skHZR6lfrRm7xdZM0t6pucFFypn0ZgRLPXPcTJtzPOKrD9L2URfqoX9x7Tg1Cyszz5YbFyzontPs2LEH3x7ElCklXipRXTR2D0= Message-ID: <47CFF9A3.30309@gnu.org> Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:03:15 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.comp.gcc.devel To: Olivier Galibert , "H. Peter Anvin" , Chris Lattner , Michael Matz , Richard Guenther , Joe Buck , Jan Hubicka , Aurelien Jarno , 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: <20080305212005.GC17267@synopsys.com> <84fc9c000803051332q2f2eedeej7d3c0509e698cabf@mail.gmail.com> <47CF11D6.7070901@zytor.com> <738B72DB-A1D6-43F8-813A-E49688D05771@apple.com> <2F47E21A-9055-4EC3-99CF-B666BBC045C3@apple.com> <47CF3F09.4080606@zytor.com> <578FCA7D-D7A6-44F6-9310-4A97C13CDCBE@apple.com> <47CF44E7.3020106@zytor.com> <20080306135139.GA5236@dspnet.fr.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20080306135139.GA5236@dspnet.fr.eu.org> 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: 761 Lines: 18 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. Paolo -- 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/