Tells the compiler to not attempt any vulnerable code detection or fixing. This is equivalent to not specifying the

-mconditional-branch

option.

Tells the compiler to perform a search of vulnerable code patterns in the compilation and report all occurrences to stderr.

Tells the compiler to perform a search of vulnerable code patterns in the compilation and generate code to ensure that the identified data accesses are not executed speculatively. It will also report any fixed patterns to stderr.

This setting does not guarantee total mitigation, it only fixes cases where all components of the vulnerability can be seen or determined by the compiler. The pattern detection will be more complete if advanced optimization options are specified or are in effect, such as option

O3

and option

-ipo

(or

/Qipo

).

Tells the compiler to fix all of the vulnerable code so that it is either not executed speculatively, or there is no observable side-channel created from their speculative execution. Since it is a complete mitigation against Spectre variant 1 attacks, this setting will have the most run-time performance cost.

In contrast to the

pattern-fix

setting, the compiler will not attempt to identify the exact conditional branches that may have led to the mis-speculated execution.

This is the same as specifying setting

all-fix

.

Tells the compiler to treat any path where speculative execution of a memory load creates vulnerability (if mispredicted). The compiler automatically adds mitigation code along any vulnerable paths found, but it uses a different method then the one used for

all-fix

(or

all-fix-lfence

).

This method uses CMOVcc instruction execution, which constrains speculative execution. Thus, it is used for keeping track of the predicate value, which is updated on each conditional branch.

To prevent Spectre v.1 attack, each memory load that is potentially vulnerable is bitwise ORed with the predicate to mask out the loaded value if the code is on a mispredicted path.

This is analogous to the Clang compiler's option to do Speculative Load Hardening.

This setting is only supported on Intel® 64 architecture-based systems.