RE: [RFC PATCH 13/12] Retpoline vs. CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_SYMBOLS

[Lu, Hongjiu]

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> Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH 13/12] Retpoline vs.
> CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_SYMBOLS
> 
> On Sun, 7 Jan 2018, Lu, Hongjiu wrote:
> 
> > Please checkout patches for GCC 7:
> >
> > https://github.com/hjl-tools/gcc/commits/hjl/indirect/gcc-7-branch/mas
> > ter
> >
> > For GCC trunk:
> >
> > https://github.com/hjl-tools/gcc/commits/hjl/indirect/master
> 
> What's the plan for these vs. official GCC? Is that stuff going to part of GCC
> and if so, which versions of GCC will have that?

If I get positive feedbacks from kernel folks with my GCC 7 patches today, I
will submit my patches for GCC 8 today.   After they are checked in, I will
backport them to GCC 7/6/5/4.9.

H.J.