* Retpoline support for GCC 5.4.0??
@ 2018-03-23 19:59 Barry, Kyle
2018-03-26 9:45 ` Mason
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From: Barry, Kyle @ 2018-03-23 19:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gcc-help
Will Retpoline be backported to 5.4.0?
Thanks,
Kyle
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* Re: Retpoline support for GCC 5.4.0??
2018-03-23 19:59 Retpoline support for GCC 5.4.0?? Barry, Kyle
@ 2018-03-26 9:45 ` Mason
2018-03-26 14:53 ` Jeff Law
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From: Mason @ 2018-03-26 9:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Kyle Barry; +Cc: GCC help
On 23/03/2018 20:59, Barry, Kyle wrote:
> Will retpoline be backported to 5.4.0?
Disclaimer: Just a regular user.
The head of the GCC 5 branch is GCC 5.5, released on 2017-10-10
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-5/
AFAIU, GCC 5 is no longer supported by the GCC project. However,
this doesn't preclude LTS-focused companies such a Redhat or SUSE
from back-porting security fixes to older branches.
Regards.
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* Re: Retpoline support for GCC 5.4.0??
2018-03-26 9:45 ` Mason
@ 2018-03-26 14:53 ` Jeff Law
2018-03-26 16:15 ` Barry, Kyle
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jeff Law @ 2018-03-26 14:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mason, Kyle Barry; +Cc: GCC help
On 03/26/2018 03:45 AM, Mason wrote:
> On 23/03/2018 20:59, Barry, Kyle wrote:
>
>> Will retpoline be backported to 5.4.0?
>
> Disclaimer: Just a regular user.
>
> The head of the GCC 5 branch is GCC 5.5, released on 2017-10-10
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-5/
>
> AFAIU, GCC 5 is no longer supported by the GCC project. However,
> this doesn't preclude LTS-focused companies such a Redhat or SUSE
> from back-porting security fixes to older branches.
Exactly. And in fact Red Hat has already backported and released errata
for the retpoline work to gcc-4.8 (for RHEL 7) and gcc-4.4 (for RHEL 6).
The work to backport to gcc-4.1 (RHEL 5) is also complete, but not yet
released.
jeff
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* Re: Retpoline support for GCC 5.4.0??
2018-03-26 14:53 ` Jeff Law
@ 2018-03-26 16:15 ` Barry, Kyle
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Barry, Kyle @ 2018-03-26 16:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jeff Law, Mason; +Cc: GCC help
Thanks for the replies.
I'll see what the Gentoo folks are up to w.r.t. to GCC 5 & retpoline.
-Kyle
________________________________
From: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 8:53:19 AM
To: Mason; Barry, Kyle
Cc: GCC help
Subject: Re: Retpoline support for GCC 5.4.0??
On 03/26/2018 03:45 AM, Mason wrote:
> On 23/03/2018 20:59, Barry, Kyle wrote:
>
>> Will retpoline be backported to 5.4.0?
>
> Disclaimer: Just a regular user.
>
> The head of the GCC 5 branch is GCC 5.5, released on 2017-10-10
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-5/
>
> AFAIU, GCC 5 is no longer supported by the GCC project. However,
> this doesn't preclude LTS-focused companies such a Redhat or SUSE
> from back-porting security fixes to older branches.
Exactly. And in fact Red Hat has already backported and released errata
for the retpoline work to gcc-4.8 (for RHEL 7) and gcc-4.4 (for RHEL 6).
The work to backport to gcc-4.1 (RHEL 5) is also complete, but not yet
released.
jeff
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