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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Marshall Clow wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal">> The following minimum compiler versions are strongly recommended.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">> * Clang 3.5 and above<br>
> * GCC 4.7 and above.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">> Anything older may work.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">> We're having more and more trouble supporting pre-4.7 versions of gcc, especially in C++03 mode.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">> Much of the early gcc support was driven by the fact that Apple was never going to move past gcc 4.2.1,
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<p class="MsoNormal">> and the necessity of supporting that compiler - but that ship has sailed.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">> I'd like to officially drop support for those compilers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I am a mere user of libc++, so this may be a non-problem, but I feel the need to check.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I make extensive use of backwards compatibility on OS X: building on, say, OS X 10.11, and aiming to have backwards compatibility to older versions of OS X, which of course
includes the libc++ on them. How does this proposal affect the future of such backwards compatibility?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">In my specific case, I'm not intending to use future versions of Clang to target anything before OS X 10.10, but others may well do so.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">--
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">John Dallman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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