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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC upgrades, FUD and gentoo documentation
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:20:44
Message-Id: CAEdQ38FXZH6GgU0o2HxfsUNp3s4PaJJQNM8M6a-P5D6HfP8P8A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC upgrades, FUD and gentoo documentation by James Cloos
1 On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 6:57 PM, James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com> wrote:
2 >>>>>> "SV" == Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o> writes:
3 >
4 > SV> - Since 3.4.0/4.1.0, the C++ ABI is forward-compatible, so rebuilds
5 > SV>   from that version onwards should not be needed
6 >
7 > That is not generally true.
8 >
9 > I use gcc-4.5 as my system gcc, but mostly use 4.6 when building things
10 > outside of portage.  I still run into compilation errors with C++ which
11 > go away if I compile said code with 4.5.
12 >
13 > GCC’s C++ abi is only *mostly* forwards compatible, not *entirely*.
14
15 Is that a problem with the ABI, or just that gcc-4.6 is more strict? I
16 think it's the latter.
17
18 Matt

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Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC upgrades, FUD and gentoo documentation James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com>