Gentoo begins to mark gcc-4.3 stable

Already done in amd64. It seems it’s going to happen to all others arches very soon.

I have been waiting for this for more than six months…

GCC 4.3 eliminated some implicit inclusions among headers, and therefore has caused many compilation errors – most notably missing <cstdlib> and <cstring>. (It’s not GCC’s fault; it’s the coders’.)

I switched my default compiler from 4.2.4 to 4.3.2 just a few days ago, so I’m not a real hacker – hackers* always live on the bleeding edge. I reported only two bugs exposed by GCC 4.3 – should have been more had I switched earlier..

* A hacker is different from a cracker! Those who illegally and/or immorally crack computer systems or proprietary software should be called crackers.

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Tags: GCC, Gentoo