Reply to post: Re: Intel "shouldn't be selling CPUs?"

Meltdown/Spectre week three: World still knee-deep in something nasty

JeffyPoooh
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Re: Intel "shouldn't be selling CPUs?"

ST suggested, "It could conceivably be mitigated in the compiler..."

What if the bad guy uses the old (unmitigated) compiler, or even (gasp!) In-line Assembler ?

I'm not sure that the basic concept of securing the world's CPUs in "the" (?) complier makes much sense.

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