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GCC Compiler 4.3.0 exposes a Linux / BSD kernel bug
Since version 4.3, gcc changed its behavior concerning the x86/x86-64 ABI and the direction flag, that is it now assumes that the direction flag is cleared at the entry of a function and it doesn’t clear once more if needed. According to LWN article GCC 4.3.0 exposes a kernel bug:
A change to GCC for [...]

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