shield Recommended update for gcc48

SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP3-2018-108

This update for gcc48 fixes the following issues: Added support for generation of retpolines on x86_64. [bnc#1074621] This support is used for building the Linux Kernel with retpoline support to mitigate the Spectre Variant 2 attack. New compiler options have been added to specify specific code generation: * -mindirect-branch=keep * -mindirect-branch=thunk * -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern * -mindirect-branch=thunk-inline * -mindirect-branch-register * -mfunction-return=keep * -mfunction-return=thunk * -mfunction-return=thunk-extern * -mfunction-return=thunk-inline

• Release Date
  Jan 19 2018
• References
  Bugzilla: 1074621
  
• Type
  recommended
• Severity
  moderate

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• Packages
  gcc48-gij
  Java Bytecode Interpreter for gcc

  4.8.5-31.9.1

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  gcc48-gij-32bit
  Java Bytecode Interpreter for gcc

  4.8.5-31.9.1

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  libgcj48
  Java Runtime Library for gcc

  4.8.5-31.9.1

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  libgcj48-32bit
  Java Runtime Library for gcc

  4.8.5-31.9.1

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  libgcj48-jar
  Java runtime library (jar files).

  4.8.5-31.9.1

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  libgcj_bc1
  Fake library for BC-ABI compatibility.

  4.8.5-31.9.1

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