Re: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag

[H. Peter Anvin]

Richard Guenther wrote:
> A patched GCC IMHO makes only sense if it is always-on, yet another option
> won't help in corner cases.  And corner cases is exactly what people seem
> to care about.  For this reason that we have this single release, 4.3.0, that
> behaves "bad" is already a problem.

The option will help embedded vendors who can guarantee that it's not a 
problem.

	-hpa
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