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

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