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.
No, the bug *in the kernel* was already present (if you had a signal raised during a call to memmove). It's just more visible with GCC 4.3.
Paolo
