GCC 9 Looks Set To Remove Intel MPX Support

[Kavalor]

My Sarcasm meter is probably not tuned enough today.

But just in case you are actually serious. Give me one reason why SUSE and Red Hat should maintain it if Intel has no interest. Intel had one year time to fix it and get it un-deprecated. They chose not to.

[jpg44]

This is one of the dumbest and most outrageous things I've ever heard of. It shows the flagrant disregard for the safety of the users that they are unwilling to maintain relatively simple and absolutely essential security code that protects users from C/C++ code that is always full of serious vulnerabilities. With the enormous number of exploits found in nearly every C and C++ project, removing protections against these errors is beyond stupid. Its severe willful negligence.


How can Linux be considered to be a secure OS when it will not allow users to use hardware features that can make things more secure? After all of the uproar over Spectre we are now actually CREATING a security weakness in Linux by not protecting users? What are these brain dead fools thinking?

Everyone needs to complain loudly to SUSE and Red Hat to retract these ridiculous patch and commit to supporting MPX.

[schmidtbag]

Strange how something so relatively new is already so broken and un-maintained.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GCC 9 Looks Set To Remove Intel MPX Support

Last year we reported on GCC deprecating Intel Memory Protection Extensions (MPX) and now it looks like with GCC 9 they will be dropping the support entirely...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-Patch-To-Drop-MPX