[PATCH v2] NEWS: Add some more news from the 2.41 cycle

[Peter Bergner]

On 1/27/25 7:19 AM, dilfridge@gentoo.org wrote:
> +* On PowerPC64, support for the return-oriented programming protection
> +  instructions added in ISA 3.1 (Power10) has been added, as well as
> +  function optimizations for Power10.

As an FYI, Sachin has all of our assembler files enabled with ROP support.
However, it takes some fancy CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS/ASFLAGS setting to get it
built as is.  We're working internally on adding a --enable-rop-protection
configure option that will automatically add the compiler option to
the build flags, but that will miss the release.  Our plan is to allow
the release to go out as is wrt ROP and then we'll submit the patch to
add --enable-rop-protection and give it enough time for unhurried reviews
and then hopefully back port it to the release branch when it's baked on
trunk for a while.

Peter