ohxten sends news from earlier this month that GCC 4.3.0’s new behavior of not clearing the direction flag before a string operation on x86 systems poses problems with kernels — such as Linux and BSD — that don’t clear the direction flag before a signal handler is called, despite the ABI specification.

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