Hi Igor, On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Tsimbalist, Igor V wrote: > MPX is going to be deprecated in gcc-8. Control-flow protection support > is in gcc-8. Reflect these in Release Notes for gcc-8.
thanks for this update. Only some minor changes, then this is good to go. >> <li> >> A new option <code>-fcf-protection=[full|branch|return|none]</code> is >> introduced to perform a code instrumentation to increase program >> security by "performs code instrumentation" (omit "a") >> checking that target addresses of control-flow transfer instructions >> (such as >> indirect function call, function return, indirect jump) are valid. >> Currently >> the instrumentation is supported on x86 GNU/Linux target only. "on x86 GNU/Linux targets" (since there are several such as i586, i686,...). >> See, the user No comma. >> <li> >> GCC now supports the Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) >> extension through <code>-mibt, -mshstk, -mcet</code> options. One of >> these "...through the <code>-mibt</code>, <code>-mshstk</code>, and <code>-mcet</code> options" Gerald