Re: [gentoo-hardened] GCC4 (again...)

[klondike <franxisco1988@gmail.com>]

2009/6/25 Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com>:
> Hi, I can find various posts on blogs referring to hardened working in at
> least a limited capacity with GCC4 right now?  There is even a (fairly old)
> note in the gentoo documentation about upgrading to GCC4.1.  However, I
> don't see any recent status updates on the list here, or any other official
> kind of notices?
>
> Can someone please perhaps post a summary of where we are with regards to
> GCC4?  I think a lot of folks want hardened as a "nice to have", so even a
> partial implementation would be nice to have, although also it's important
> to understand exactly what you are getting
>
> Anyone able to provide such a summary please?
>
> FWIW: I'm largely interested in GCC4+hardened+uclibc, which may be better
> supported?
I wrote on my blog on that some time ago:
http://klondike.xiscosoft.es/klog/2009/03/07/gentoo-hardened-and-gcc-4x-i-installation/

As for now I keep using gcc4-x for desktop and server use without
major problems except a few packages who don't detected well the gcc
version (and which seem to have been fixed).