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Author vstinner
Recipients benjamin.peterson, christian.heimes, florin.papa, joseph.hackman, pitrou, r.david.murray, rhettinger, skrah, vstinner, zach.ware
Date 2018-10-02.07:58:23
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> I'm going to formally reject this, since GCC removed -fmpx support.

"The MPX extensions to the C and C++ languages have been deprecated and will be removed in a future release."
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-8/changes.html

Oh. It seems like the reason is to "reduce the maintenance burden".

Some links:

* https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MPX
* https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-Possible-MPX-Deprecation

A patch has been proposed to remove MPX from GCC 9 (no merged?):
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-Patch-To-Drop-MPX
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