Re: retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie

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Subject	Re: retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie
Date	2018-02-18 10:40 +0100
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Does this mean re-installing Debain is the best way to mitigate Spectre?
If yes, would re-installing Debian from now (and onwards) be a good time to avoid Spectre vulnerabilities?


On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 07:03:00PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 02:35:22PM +0100, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> > The update for gcc-4.9 has just been released.
> > Test packages for gcc-6/stretch are now available at https://people.debian.org/~jmm/gcc6/
>  
> Thanks for your work on this, Moritz.
> 
> I have a stupid/uninformed question: is this gcc only useful for
> rebuilding the kernel or would it "in theory" (and practice) be better
> to rebuild everything with it? (of course the latter is probably not really
> practical for Debian, but others could do it more easily.)
> 
> 
> -- 
> cheers,
> 	Holger

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retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2018-02-13 23:10 +0100
  Re: retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie Fabian Grünbichler <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com> - 2018-02-14 16:30 +0100
    Re: retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2018-02-14 23:00 +0100
      Re: retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie Fabian Grünbichler <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com> - 2018-02-15 15:20 +0100
        Re: retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2018-02-15 22:20 +0100
        Re: retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2018-02-17 14:40 +0100
          Re: retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2018-02-17 20:10 +0100
            Re: retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie who.are.you@posteo.no - 2018-02-18 10:40 +0100
              Re: retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie Davide Prina <davide.prina@gmail.com> - 2018-02-19 20:30 +0100
            Re: retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2018-02-22 23:00 +0100

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