[cfe-dev] Changing default C++ standard version

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Thu Jul 2 11:06:27 PDT 2015


On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 02:32:32AM +0200, Michał Radwański wrote:
> Hello
> GCC already changed default C++ standard version to c++14:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-07/msg00073.html
> 
> As
>  all c++14 features are already implemented in Clang and this standard 
> is already widely used, it may be good to make this change too.

I have a problem with this. The issue is not so much whether the
features are implemented or not, but that quite a bit of code is going
to break by semantic changes like user-defined literals or the narrow
warnings. The situation is IMO quite different for C++ compared to C.

Joerg




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