[llvm-dev] Using C++14 code in LLVM

Ed Maste via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Sun Oct 2 12:05:20 PDT 2016


On 2 October 2016 at 05:33, Zachary Turner via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
> With VS on 2015, the major lagging compiler is going to be GCC.  Our minimum
> GCC requirement is 4.7, which is quite old (almost 4 years for anyone
> keeping count).  What are the challenges with pushing this forward?

Also, our minimum Clang is 3.1, which is a bit over four years old.
For FreeBSD I think increasing this to 3.4 would not cause any trouble
(FreeBSD 10.x has Clang 3.4.1), but requiring Clang newer than that
would be awkward.


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