gcc 4.8 has been released, we should target to use it in 1.5
Khem already put gcc 4.8 on master.
Not really enabled yet! We have the recipes, but it's not default, this will come when I throw the PREFERRED_VERSION switch
Khem did the heavy lifting of getting the recipe all put in place, I just enabled to switch! http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=09a4af20aef12be8f221f3d50781cbcefc322846
master:8d1e77ec31972de5841eb7b0e8f5f7912774175f gcc-4.8.1 installed in core-image-sato-sdk