Subject: [bug#30111] gnu: gcc@7: Apply the 'retpoline' mitigation technique.

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:11:14 +0100

Hi Alex,

Alex Vong <[email-masked]> skribis:

> [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

[...]

>> Do you know if a new 7.x including retpoline support is scheduled for
>> release soon?
>>
> Yes, I think they will appear in 7.3 according to [0]. Also, some
> changes appear to be in gcc-7-branch already[1]. Do you think we should
> wait for it instead?

Yes, perhaps we should wait for that release.

What do people think?

Ludo’.