On Tue, Jan 23, 2018, at 10:38 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Paul Rogers wrote: > > "SUSE's Richard Biener is making preparations for officially releasing GCC > > 7.3.0 on Thursday, 25 January. > > > > GCC 7.3 is the point release to GCC 7 that's quickly being prepared to ship > > the Spectre patches." > > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-7.3-Thursday > > > > Anybody know of fixes backported to gcc-6? > > No, I don't know that, but please be aware that we are also due new > binutils on the same day and a new glibc on Feb 1st. >
I'm not ready to upgrade to LFS-8.x yet, so I want to keep this 7.10 usable for the time being. It uses gcc-6.2. I've gotten kernel patch-4.9.77 which has retpoline support. The Help for the option implies it's worth installing even without compiler support, but I'd rather have it. One option is upgrading just gcc-7.3 this week, but I'd have fewer uncertainties staying with the gcc-6 series if it has the patches. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
