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Why is cld used?


According to the i386 psABI, the direct flag should be set to zero
before entry and upon exit from a function, why does glibc use
"cld" in some functions where the direct flag won't be changed?
One example is sysdeps/i386/i686/mempcpy.S.


H.J.


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