Hello people,

I've been using for about a month GCC 4.2.0 with binutils 2.18. The optimizations are enabled and everything kept working fine!
Thanks for this great distro.

braulio@brauliopc ~ $ cat /etc/make.conf
# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example
GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://gentoo.osuosl.org"

EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="-v"

CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -mtune=athlon64 -mcpu=athlon64 -march=athlon64"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

FEATUES="parallel-fetch"

USE="
        threads bzip2 unicode bash-completion pch
        mmx mmxext 3dnow 3dnowext sse sse2
        a52 alsa vorbis ogg mp3 mad flac lame aac musicbrainz
        ffmpeg theora xvid mpeg quicktime vcd x264
        -gtk -gnome X kde qt3 qt4 dbus
        xcomposite opengl xscreensaver xv
        jpeg tiff png gif pdf imlib lcms
        cdr dvd dvdr alsa usb hal lm_sensors gphoto2 encode
        java
        samba mysql sqlite3 apache2 ldap
"

INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse"
VIDEO_CARDS="nv"
LINGUAS="pt_BR"

Cheers,
brĂ¡ulio