[cfe-dev] [LLVMdev] RFC: A proposal to move toward using C++11 features in LLVM & Clang / bounding support for old host compilers

[dag at cray.com]

David Tweed <david.tweed at gmail.com> writes:

> Fair enough: my concern was that we haven't heard much from other
> people who are following ToT but aren't primarily LLVM developers in
> this discussion, yet I talk to a lot of people who say they pull in
> ToT quite regularly. So the thing that was concerning me was that an
> email gets sent to the dev mailing list announcing this. Maybe the
> affected people will read it, maybe they won't (I know I don't have
> the time to do more than skim the mailing lists). At least with some
> big smoking gun in the code it's easier to persuade management this is
> a serious issue that needs time budgetting for investigation NOW.

I agree this is an important issue to address.  I can't more than skim
the e-mail lists either.

> But I entirely appreciate that the problem may be that everyone knows
> but still needs time to do due diligence on a new toolchain.

I think it's both.  People might not know and they have lots of code to
test.

                          -David