2009/6/25 Ed W <li...@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).
