The supposed Spectre mitigation (ELFbac) is nonsense because it assumes your data that needs to be protected is in global variables. *sigh* academics...https://twitter.com/YourAnonRiot/status/1021507680504930304 …
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Data in a section is inherently a singleton aka global var. It doesn't matter how you created it. The actual data that needs protection all has allocated and automatic (stack) storage.
If your proposal for mitigating Spectre is to go back to using global variables for everything, that's a complete non-starter.
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