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Grant wrote: |
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> I've been stuck on gcc-3.4.6 on my hardened profile system (currently: |
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> hardened/linux/amd64/10.0) for a very long time. Now it looks like |
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> gcc-4.3.4 has been stabilized for hardened profiles. Has anyone |
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> tested it? This system is critical for me, so I've got to be careful. |
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> - Grant |
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A lot of us have been testing the new GCC for a while now using the |
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hardened-development overlay. It's as stable as 3.4.x was in my experience. |
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About a year and a half ago, I reformatted a laptop and started from |
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scratch using gcc-4.x from the overlay, because what the hell. Many |
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issues from the gcc-3.x era actually cleared up with the new toolchain. |
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Once I convinced myself that things were working correctly, I began to |
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migrate "real" systems to the development GCC one at a time. |
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All of my personal machines are using gcc-4.x, and things work much |
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better on the desktop than they did with gcc-3.x. Many of our servers |
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have also been migrated: web, database, dns, mail, monitoring, firewall, |
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etc. all work fine. I have noticed absolutely no difference (either |
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positive or negative) on those machines. |
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In short, switching your default compiler with gcc-config isn't going to |
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change anything. Test any new packages/upgrades just as you would have |
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with gcc-3.x. |
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