<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">"Spectre" is one of two notorious bugs of modern CPUs involving speculative execution. I rather doubt that VAX is affected by this but I suspect others here have a lot more knowledge.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>paul<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:coypu@sdf.org" class="">coypu@sdf.org</a><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">VAX + Spectre</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">September 17, 2019 at 5:32:42 AM EDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:port-vax@netbsd.org" class="">port-vax@netbsd.org</a><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">So, this is a bug report:<br class=""><a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86811" class="">https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86811</a><br class=""><br class="">GCC would like to know if VAX needs Spectre-related work.<br class="">Are any of the VAXes ever made capable of speculative execution? the<br class="">first tech for doing it was in 1967, so not entirely far-fetched.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>