Public bug reported:
To mitigate Spectre Variant 2, gcc needs to have retpoline support
(-mindirect-branch and -mfunction-return arguments on amd64 and i386).
Packages with this will go into the proposed pockets but need to be
published in the -security pockets for their respective releases.
** Affects: gcc-4.8 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1749261
Title:
Add amd64/i386 support
Status in gcc-4.8 package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
To mitigate Spectre Variant 2, gcc needs to have retpoline support
(-mindirect-branch and -mfunction-return arguments on amd64 and i386).
Packages with this will go into the proposed pockets but need to be
published in the -security pockets for their respective releases.
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