Re: SEC: Spectre variant 2: GCC: -mindirect-branch=thunk -mindirect-branch-register

Joni Orponen <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 8:48 PM Wes Turner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Should C extensions that compile all add
> `-mindirect-branch=thunk -mindirect-branch-register` [1] to mitigate the
> risk of Spectre variant 2 (which does indeed affect user space applications
> as well as kernels)?
>

Are those available on GCC <= 4.2.0 as per PEP 513?

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Joni Orponen

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