Spectre mitigation changes in Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 Preview 3
With Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 Preview 3 we have two new features to announce with regards to our Spectre mitigations. First, the /Qspectre switch is now supported regardless of the selected optimization level. Second, we have provided Spectre-mitigated implementations of the Microsoft Visual C++ libraries.
Complete details are available in context in the original MSVC Spectre mitigation post on VCBlog. Changes in Update 3 are also listed below.
In previous versions of MSVC we only added Spectre mitigations when code is being optimized. In Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 Preview 3 we’ve added support for /Qspectre regardless of your optimization settings. This feature is currently only available in Visual Studio verion 15.7 Preview 3 and future releases.
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