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.
I agree, it reminds me of Burroughs on the 5500 believing the
Fortran standard which carefully allowed for a stack based
implementation of Fortran, Algol-style, unfortunately no real
Fortran programs worked with this semantics, and it was one of
the factors contributing the demise of the 5500.
OG.
