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gcc-4.8 package

  1. Bug #1750937
  2. Comment #72

Comment 72 for bug 1750937

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Alexander Stohr (alexander-stohr) wrote : Re: 4.4.0-116 Kernel update on 2/21 breaks Nvidia drivers (on 14.04 and 16.04)

are you sure it has arrived with _some_ gcc version already.

publications indicate its very experimental still and i can not see any of the typical switches beeing honored by the gcc versions on my machine. (and i was able to switch them forth and back using "update-alternatives") needless to say that even after a few attempts a call to "modinfo" does not at all report the "retpoline" option for the dkms built nvidia kernel modules (using -384 on top of 4.4.0-116).

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-7-Gets-Retpolines
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gcc8-mindirect-thunk&num=1

can you please be more specific with the compiler versions you are using? please give exact versions. thank you.