Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

[Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com>]

On 26 January 2018 at 16:37, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 04:17:27PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> ​Is the sid gcc now 7.3 as someone said earlier even though it says it is
> 7.2?

Sid apparently has both "gcc" and "gcc-7" packages.

https://packages.debian.org/sid/gcc shows version 7.2.0-1d1.

https://packages.debian.org/sid/gcc-7 shows version 7.3.0-1.

As a sid user, YOU should be capable of performing this kind of search
(using apt-cache, apt, aptitude, http://packages.debian.org/ and other
resources).

​E.g. remote viewing.  I installed gcc7 but the other day but the compiler installed was billed as 7.2.20 or something.

Maybe it's been upgraded since then.

 

As for whether the compiler implements whatever Spectre workaround
you're looking for ... who knows?  It's sid.  Test it and report
the results.  That's what sid is for.

​If it really is gcc 7.3 it should be able to do it. 

Regards

MF

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