* H. J. Lu via Gcc: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 10:24 AM David Woodhouse <dw...@infradead.org> wrote: >> Sure, there is work to do to enable CET. But Andy's point is that >> we deliberately fixed up retpoline to be register-based >> *specifically* for the purpose of being CET-compatible, so it's >> somewhat daft for GCC to be claiming they are incompatible. > > GCC needs to be told that external thunk is CET compatible.
Why? Won't the GNU property markup enable consistency checks? So that the CET compatibility check can be deferred to the linking stage?
