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You don't fix them, the tools and systems (gcc or the operating systems) have to work around them (i.e. not allow the sequences of instructions that generate th

• rincebrain 11y ago
  That's one way, and sometimes the only way on certain platforms (hello Intel Quark), but - those kinds of workarounds can cause problems on other platforms in turn - they don't stop malicious people from making use of such exploits, if they don't require such privileges as to make them pointless once you can use them So you generally prefer to be able to update the CPU microcode or flip a killbit to disable the relevant silicon path, to having to recompile everything on your architecture to include a workaround detection.