Re: Compat 32-bit syscall entry from 64-bit task!?

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Linus claims it does break.

Roland McGrath <mcgrathr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Indan Zupancic <indan@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> It's a lot easier for existing code to add an extra cs check than to
>use
>
>The issue is whether showing fictitious high bits of %cs as set will
>break
>existing applications (debuggers, etc.) that look at it and think that
>it's
>nothing but the hardware state zero-extended, as it is today.

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