Re: retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie

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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