It might be worth asking on comp.os.vms as well, it’s one of the few USENET groups that seems to still be active.
Zane > On Sep 17, 2019, at 6:55 AM, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote: > > "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. > > paul > >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> From: co...@sdf.org <mailto:co...@sdf.org> >> Subject: VAX + Spectre >> Date: September 17, 2019 at 5:32:42 AM EDT >> To: port-...@netbsd.org <mailto:port-...@netbsd.org> >> >> So, this is a bug report: >> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86811 >> <https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86811> >> >> GCC would like to know if VAX needs Spectre-related work. >> Are any of the VAXes ever made capable of speculative execution? the >> first tech for doing it was in 1967, so not entirely far-fetched. > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > s...@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
