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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC upgrades, FUD and gentoo documentation
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:27:21
Message-Id: 201110121526.45513.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC upgrades, FUD and gentoo documentation by James Cloos
1 On Saturday 08 October 2011 18:57:23 James Cloos wrote:
2 > >>>>> "SV" == Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o> writes:
3 > SV> - Since 3.4.0/4.1.0, the C++ ABI is forward-compatible, so rebuilds
4 > SV> from that version onwards should not be needed
5 >
6 > That is not generally true.
7 >
8 > I use gcc-4.5 as my system gcc, but mostly use 4.6 when building things
9 > outside of portage. I still run into compilation errors with C++ which
10 > go away if I compile said code with 4.5.
11 >
12 > GCC’s C++ abi is only *mostly* forwards compatible, not *entirely*.
13
14 i think you're hitting a bug that has nothing to do with the ABI
15 compatibility. i.e. Bug 297685.
16 -mike

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