When building GCC, it will scan all headers in /usr/include and apply fixes to them, and then copy them and use the modified versions. Now a binary distro (AFAIK) will ship the GCC modified headers, so there's no problem.

Gentoo on the other hand will work as intended by GCC only if the user re-emerges GCC after every time a package is emerged that installs headers. Obviously, no user does that.

So the question is simple; does Gentoo deal with this problem in any way?


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