Why is cld used?

[Ulrich Drepper]

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Andreas Schwab wrote:

> In which way is this different from any other ABI violation of the caller?

The difference is that the std isntruction can be maliciously added at
some completely other places without having any ill effects.  And then
some memory copying or some memory clearing (memset) will fail.
suddenly memory is copied to the wrong place, passwords are not erased
from memory, etc.

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