Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Alexandre Julliard skrev:
>> All other Windows compilers have to respect the ABI as defined by MSVC,
>> if only because all the system dlls are built with MSVC.
>
> Well, we don't really know how the system dlls are built, they could
> have different compil
Alexandre Julliard skrev:
> Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Alexandre Julliard skrev:
>>> It depends if MSVC respects that ABI constraint or not.
>> Only if you want to make Wine depend on the compiler used to compile
>> Windows applications. Not all of them are called "MSVC". I know
>
Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Alexandre Julliard skrev:
>> It depends if MSVC respects that ABI constraint or not.
>
> Only if you want to make Wine depend on the compiler used to compile
> Windows applications. Not all of them are called "MSVC". I know
> Borland Delphi is used by some
Alexandre Julliard skrev:
> Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> But that's a bit of a different issue, unrelated to the kernel flaw. I
>> was only talking about that flaw. I kind of tried to clarify that in
>> my next followup... oh well.
>
> Sure, it has nothing to do with the kernel bug
Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When it comes to ABI issues with MSVC code, the question isn't so much
> whether it uses cld, but what Windows does when throwing
> exceptions. Does Windows clear the DF when it calls exception
> handlers? If not, then there's hardly any Wine bug here (that
Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But that's a bit of a different issue, unrelated to the kernel flaw. I
> was only talking about that flaw. I kind of tried to clarify that in
> my next followup... oh well.
Sure, it has nothing to do with the kernel bug, except that it points to
a similar
Alexandre Julliard skrev:
> Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Francois Gouget skrev:
>>> Does anyone know if MSVC does a cld in the right places?
>> Maybe. But it hardly matters. Only GCC-generated code is affected. The
>> problem might then show up in Wine signal/exception handling. Th
Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Francois Gouget skrev:
>> Does anyone know if MSVC does a cld in the right places?
>
> Maybe. But it hardly matters. Only GCC-generated code is affected. The
> problem might then show up in Wine signal/exception handling. Things
> like, say, copying the C
Ove Kaaven skrev:
>> Does anyone know if MSVC does a cld in the right places?
>
> Maybe. But it hardly matters. Only GCC-generated code is affected.
In order to avoid confusion about my answer, I should probably clarify.
I was answering this question only:
"Could this kernel bug affect MSVC cod
Francois Gouget skrev:
>The problem revolves around the x86 direction flag (DF), which
>governs whether block memory operations operate forward through
>memory or backwards. GCC [...] 4.3.0, assumes that the direction flag
>has been cleared [...] at the entry of each function, as
Am Mittwoch, 19. März 2008 16:06:34 schrieb Francois Gouget:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Francois Gouget wrote:
> [...]
>
> > So any compiler that not clear the direction flag at the start of each
> > function can cause kernel crashes when running on a buggy Linux or BSD
> > kernel.
>
>
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Francois Gouget wrote:
[...]
> So any compiler that not clear the direction flag at the start of each
> function can cause kernel crashes when running on a buggy Linux or BSD kernel.
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Sorry, it's just regular application
So I've just read the following article:
GCC 4.3.0 exposes a kernel bug
http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/272048/ecf14f359bcdcd15/
And my question is: could this be relevant to Wine?
And I don't mean about GCC 4.3.0 but about MSVC.
Here's the core of the issue:
The problem revolves around
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