<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Chris Bieneman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beanz@apple.com" target="_blank">beanz@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On Aug 22, 2014, at 9:53 AM, Daniel Dilts <<a href="mailto:diltsman@gmail.com" target="_blank">diltsman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Chris Bieneman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beanz@apple.com" target="_blank">beanz@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div>Starting a new thread to loop in cfe-dev and lldb-dev. For those not following along there has been a thread on llvm-dev about moving the minimum required Visual Studio version to 2013. The motivating reason is this will allow us to take advantage of a bunch of C++11 features that are not supported by MSVC 2012.<br>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Is there an existing policy on how supported compiler versions are selected? </div></div></div></div>
</div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><div>There was a discussion last year (<a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2013-October/066847.html" target="_blank">http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2013-October/066847.html</a>) WRT allowing LLVM to use C++11 features which established a precedent of supporting compilers released back for two years, with a special caveat for Windows.</div>
<span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Chris</div></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>From the link:</div><div><em>we support building with the
</em><i>most recent 2 versions of VS available at the *prior* release. For example</i><i> when we branch for 3.4, the two versions will be 2012 and 2013. Those two</i><i> would be supported on mainline from then through 3.5, and when we branch</i><i> for 3.5 we would re-evaluate.
</i></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>If that is followed exactly support for VS2012 would not be able to be dropped. However, it is rather easy to get the latest VC++ compiler from Microsoft at no cost (Express edition anybody?), so I don't have any real concern with dropping support for VS2012.</div>
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