diff --git a/docs/Compiler-Hardening-Guides/Compiler-Options-Hardening-Guide-for-C-and-C++.md b/docs/Compiler-Hardening-Guides/Compiler-Options-Hardening-Guide-for-C-and-C++.md
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@@ -1377,6 +1377,7 @@ Many more security-relevant compiler options exist than are recommended in this
 | <span id="-fsanitize=safe-stack">`-fsanitize=safe-stack`</span>             | Clang 4.0.0 | Known compatibility limitations with garbage collection, signal handling, and shared libraries[^clang_safestack].
 | <span id="-fasynchronous-unwind-tables">`-fasynchronous-unwind-tables`</span> | GCC 3.1.1<br/>Clang 7.0.0  | Generate stack unwind table in DWARF2 format, which improves precision of unwind information[^Song20] and can improve the performance of profilers at the cost of larger binary sizes[^Bastian19], but does not benefit security.
 | <span id="-fvtable-verify">`-fvtable-verify`</span> |GCC 4.9.4 | Enables run-time checks for C++ virtual function pointers corruption. This option has significant performance overhead[^Tice2014] and breaks ABI with all existing system libraries unless the entire userspace is built with `-fvtable-verify`[^gentoo-vtv]. Believed to be currently unmaintained in GCC.
+| <span id="-mmitigate-rop">`-mmitigate-rop`</span> | GCC 6.1 | Avoids combination of particular opcodes which can be reinterpretted as a return opcode in an attempt to mitigate Return Oriented Programming (ROP) attacks[^gcc-mmitigate-rop].  Was considered to be ineffective and security-theatre-esque, so was deprecated in GCC 9.1[^Bizjak2018].
 
 [^nodump]: The `-Wl,-z,nodump` option sets `DF_1_NODUMP` flag in the object’s `.dynamic` section tags. On Solaris this restricts calls to `dldump(3)` for the object. However, other operating systems ignore the `DF_1_NODUMP` flag. While Binutils implements `-Wl,-z,nodump` for Solaris compatibility a choice was made to not support it in `lld` ([D52096 lld: add -z nodump support](https://reviews.llvm.org/D52096)).
 
@@ -1396,6 +1397,10 @@ Many more security-relevant compiler options exist than are recommended in this
 
 [^gentoo-vtv]: Gentoo Foundation, [Local Use Flag: vtv](https://packages.gentoo.org/useflags/vtv) Gentoo Packages, Retrieved 2024-06-27.
 
+[^gcc-mmitigate-rop]: GCC team, [Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC): x86 Options: `-mmitigate-rop`](https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-6.1.0/gcc/x86-Options.html#index-mmitigate-rop-2936), GCC Manual, 2016-04-27.
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+[^Bizjak2018]: Bizjak, Uros [\[RFC PATCH, i386\]: Deprecate `-mmitigate-rop`](https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2018-August/504637.html), GCC Mailing List, 2018-08-15.
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 ## Appendix: Scraper Script
 
 A python script is also present in the [GitHub repository](https://github.com/ossf/wg-best-practices-os-developers/tree/main/docs/Compiler-Hardening-Guides/) that can fetch the recommended options table from the latest version of this guide and convert it to a machine readable format (JSON) for use in tooling.