Re: GCC and Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities

2018-01-04 Thread timofonic timofonic
Paranoid jails/sandboxes inside a virtual machine may mitigate a lot the risk for those untrusted binaries, right? Plus using a debugger and maybe an antivirus (I don't trust them so much and prefer to isolate them too)? What about already built software? Can those be "fixed"? What about GLibC? Wh

Can GCC generate totally native Microsoft Windows binaries as Visual Studio?

2018-01-04 Thread timofonic timofonic
Hello. Excuse me my ignorance, but that's what people say me. GCC can compile to Microsoft Windows platforms, I understand it. But people say me it uses a "shim" between *nix and native Microsoft Windows API. Some developers said me GCC on Windows is a "toy compiler". Is this right? Kind regar