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Grant writes: |
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> I just upgraded from gcc-4.4.3-r2 to gcc-4.4.4-r2 and I'm wondering if |
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> I really need to rebuild everything as it says in the guide: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml |
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The guide seems to be wrong here. Rebuilding does not harm, and it makes |
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use of tall the cool new compiler optimizations, but normally it is not |
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necessary. |
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> If not, when is it necessary? |
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Only when the API changes, which happened the last time when gcc went from |
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3.3 to 3.4, I think. |
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Wonko |
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