Re: [PATCH 2/3] objtool: Ignore retpoline alternatives

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Thu Jan 11 2018 - 12:01:31 EST


On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:

> I think I heard that retpolines won't be ported to anything older than
> GCC 4.9, so maybe it's safe to use '%='. I don't remember when it was
> introduced into GCC though.

I'm afraid we'll have to backport retpolines in some form to 4.3.x at
least. I'd be surprised if we'd be the only ones on this planet :)

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs