"Spectre" is one of two notorious bugs of modern CPUs involving speculative
execution. I rather doubt that VAX is affected by this but I suspect others
here have a lot more knowledge.
paul
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: co...@sdf.org
> Subject: VAX + Spectre
> Date: September 17, 2019 at 5:32:42 AM EDT
> To: port-...@netbsd.org
>
> So, this is a bug report:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86811
>
> GCC would like to know if VAX needs Spectre-related work.
> Are any of the VAXes ever made capable of speculative execution? the
> first tech for doing it was in 1967, so not entirely far-fetched.
