[patch] clear direction flag for signal handlers

Simon 'corecode' Schubert corecode at fs.ei.tum.de
Sat Mar 8 12:41:45 PST 2008


Aggelos Economopoulos wrote:
gcc-4.3 assumes the direction flag is clear on function entry as
specified by the i386 abi. Ensure that is the case when running
a signal handler.
Linux-kernel discussion with gcc people starts here:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/650279
Index: platform/pc32/i386/machdep.c
You might want to pull this up to vkernel as well.

Else, looks good.

cheers
  simon
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