[coreboot] gcc 4.3.0 and the direction flag

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 23:33:22 CEST 2008


On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
<c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:

>  do we clear the x86 direction flag everywhere before and after we run
>  code not under our control? I'm thinking of option ROM code and initial
>  asm code as examples.

in v3, cld happens early. We should probably do a cld everytime we
return from the run_address function, which just made that function
non-architecture-independent.

Sigh.

ron




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