Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag

[H. Peter Anvin]

Robert Dewar wrote:

Not really, it's just a matter of time.  Typical distro cycles are on 
the order of 3 years.

    -hpa

again, in the real world, there are MANY projects that are nothing
like this interactive when it comes to moving to new versions of
operating systems.

This is true, but beyond a certain point projects generally accept that 
they have to monitor their toolchain dependencies.

        -hpa