Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new version of gcc
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:45:10
Message-Id: 877hu8gl8s.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] new version of gcc by Harry Putnam
1 Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> writes:
2
3 > I noticed I've been masking gcc beyond version 4.3.2-r3, and have
4 > forgotten why I had it masked.
5 >
6 > I'm updating world right now, and wondered if I were to move up to
7 > most recent gcc (4.4.2), which would be a 5 version jump, what I could
8 > expect in the way of problems.
9 >
10 > Would I need to re-emerge just about everything?
11
12 No. There is no need to re-emerge when upgrading from gcc-4.3.x to
13 4.4.x, the ABIs did not change.