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From: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Avoid speculative indirect calls in kernel
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> So you say, that we finally need a perl interpreter in the kernel to do
> alternative patching?

No but for weird cases like that

gcc -S
perl -e
as

does work.

Alan