ohxten writes "It appears that GCC 4.3.0's new behavior of not clearing the direction flag (DF) before a string operation on x86 systems poses problems with kernels — such as Linux and BSD — that do not clear the direction flag before a signal handler is called, despite the ABI specification." Link to Original Source
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