Commit e2f407be authored by Hans Wennborg's avatar Hans Wennborg
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ReleaseNotes: move the retpoline bullet higher 

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llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst

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Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release

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* Support for `retpolines <https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7625886>`_

  was added to help mitigate "branch target injection" (variant #2) of the

  "Spectre" speculative side channels described by `Project Zero

  <https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html>`_

  and the `Spectre paper <https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf>`_.



* The ``Redirects`` argument of ``llvm::sys::ExecuteAndWait`` and

  ``llvm::sys::ExecuteNoWait`` was changed to an ``ArrayRef`` of optional

  ``StringRef``'s to make it safer and more convenient to use.
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* Preliminary support for Sanitizers and sibling features on X86(_64) NetBSD

  (ASan, UBsan, TSan, MSan, SafeStack, libFuzzer).



* Support for `retpolines <https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7625886>`_

  was added to help mitigate "branch target injection" (variant #2) of the

  "Spectre" speculative side channels described by `Project Zero

  <https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html>`_

  and the `Spectre paper <https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf>`_.





Changes to the LLVM IR

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