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

[Tim Northover]

> My point is that we can't tell users we support 4.7.x and then expect
> them to just change their compiler if someone adds a c++11 feature that
> is broken on whatever 4.7.x version of gcc they have chosen.

Yes we can. Somewhere there's a line between unsupported features and
buggy compilers. That's not automatically at "whatever 4.7.0 compiles
correctly". Otherwise we'd have to disallow any statement.

Tim.