https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=92663
--- Comment #3 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Eric Gallager from comment #2) > This sounds like it could be dangerous from a security context... currently > no network connection is needed to use gcc, it would be a major > disappointment if that changed... I think the suggestion is that the numbers are baked into the executable, not that Bugzilla is queried. The list of fixed bugs for a given revision of the source code is a static property, it doesn't need to be queried dynamically.