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? -- Joni Orponen -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EWVGWEARIYCUTCPSAPLM3GIQZ3XCQQHK/