Recommended update for gcc7

This update for gcc7 to 7.3 contains a number of fixes and improvements.

The following features were added:

Mitigations for Spectre Variant 2:
- retpoline support via -mindirect-branch=, -mfunction-return= and friends was added which
can be used to mitigate Spectre Variant 2.2.

This feature was implemented for x86 (bnc#1074621) and also for the IBM Z platform (bnc#1083946).

The following issues were fixed:

- nvptx offload target compiler install issues
- newlib parts split into cross-nvptx-newlib7-devel
- Chromium build failures (bnc#1083290)

Fixed bugs
bnc#1083946
SLES15 - Include CVE Spectre V2 mitigation patch for GCC on s390x
bnc#1083290
gcc7: chromium fails to build
bnc#1074621
VUL-0: gcc: retpoline fixes for speculative side channel attacks on various CPU platforms aka "SpectreAttack" and "MeltdownAttack"
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