"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Richard Guenther wrote:
> > We didn't yet run into this issue and build openSUSE with 4.3 since
> > more than
> > three month.
> >
>
> Well, how often do you take a trap inside an overlapping memmove()?
That was the state with older gcc, but with newer gcc it does not necessarily
reset the flag before the next function call.
so e.g. if you have
memmove(...)
for (... very long loop .... ) {
/* no function calls */
/* signals happen */
}
the signal could see the direction flag
-Andi
