On 3/6/08, Olivier Galibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
The issue should not be evaluated as: "It's always been that way, therefore, it's right." Instead, it should be: "What's the right way to do it?" You don't just change documentation because no existing code meets the requirement -- UNLESS -- the non-conforming code is actually the right way to do things.
