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[Scott Long]

Matthew Jacob wrote:
>> > >> regards
>> > >> Claus
>> > >>
>> > >Some stuff is for gcc41 but thanks- I'll see if this works for me.
>> >
>> > I guess you just download contrib-gcc42.tar.gz rather than
>> > contrib-gcc41.tar.gz.
>>
>> I think this pre-dates symbol versioning, which is apparently the
>> current blocking issue.
> 
> 
> Do I take this to mean "not yet" for patches to try?

Symbol versioning only affects userland libraries and linker.  It 
shouldn't matter for kernel code that you're looking to validate.

Scott