Retpoline Support Backport Lands In GCC 7

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Retpoline Support Backport Lands In GCC 7

16 January 2018, 08:40 AM

Phoronix: Retpoline Support Backport Lands In GCC 7

The backporting of -mindirect-branch, -mindirect-return and -mindirect-branch-register, a.k.a. the GCC "Retpoline" patches, have been back-ported and merged into the GCC 7 branch...

Retpoline Support Backport Lands In GCC 7 - Phoronix

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19 March 2018, 08:06 PM

Hi Michael. Do you know whether there has been any update on back porting the patch to earlier than gcc 7? I'm particularly interested in gcc 5.
Thanks for any info!
- John
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