Re: The Linux/BSD DF kernel bug

[Alexandre Julliard]

Ove Kaaven  writes:
> When it comes to ABI issues with MSVC code, the question isn't so much
> whether it uses cld, but what Windows does when throwing
> exceptions. Does Windows clear the DF when it calls exception
> handlers? If not, then there's hardly any Wine bug here (that doesn't
> exist on Windows anyway). Perhaps someone should test, but my guess is
> that Windows doesn't clear it.
>
> (And anyway, my experience is that MSVC assumes DF is undefined, and
> does the cld.)

A quick test on Vista shows that the flag is cleared when calling
exception handlers, and that API functions (at least lstrcat) expect it
to be cleared on entry and don't do a cld.