[gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.6 unmasking

[Ryan Hill]

On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:10:13 +0200
Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@g.o> wrote:

> Il giorno ven, 23/09/2011 alle 20.38 -0600, Ryan Hill ha scritto:
> > If you have any issues with 4.6 itself or patches you need applied,
> > now is
> > the time to speak up.
>
> There should be already a bug open about valgrind: even when _not_ using
> DWARF-4 (which breaks binutils, btw) the new gcc uses new DWARF
> instructions that are not supported even by the ~arch version. We need
> either to get upstream to release a new version or we should patch
> it/snapshot it.

Hmm, I don't see any bugs open that cover that.  The support is upstream
already? 

I think we should also consider bumping the minimum glibc version to 2.12
now that it's stable. I know it's a pain in the ass but anything older than
that just plain doesn't work anymore.

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