Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt directionflag
From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Mar 06 2008 - 15:43:37 EST
Robert Dewar wrote:
Not really, it's just a matter of time. Typical distro cycles are on
the order of 3 years.
-hpa
again, in the real world, there are MANY projects that are nothing
like this interactive when it comes to moving to new versions of
operating systems.
This is true, but beyond a certain point projects generally accept that
they have to monitor their toolchain dependencies.
-hpa
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