[cfe-dev] Setting default dialect to C++11

[Richard Smith via cfe-dev]

On 24 February 2017 at 12:33, Robinson, Paul via cfe-dev <
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Is it about time to advance Clang's default C++ dialect to C++11?
> It has been stuck on 98/03 for quite some time now.
>

See http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2016-June/049725.html for some
prior discussion on this.

Generally I think this is overdue, and that we should go straight to C++14
rather than stopping at C++11 (like GCC did).


> Charles Li has been doing a lot of patient work for a long time to get
> Clang's lit tests to be compatible with C++11.  There are only 16 tests
> that still need to be reviewed:
>
> https://reviews.llvm.org/D20710
> https://reviews.llvm.org/D21626
>
> Once those are in, we should be able to update the default.
>
> Even if it is not time to update the default for everyone, I would
> *really* LOVE to set the default dialect for the PS4 target.  That
> would at least make sure there is no future back-sliding with regards
> to future test changes, because our public PS4-target bots will catch
> those cases.  But, those last 16 tests need to be fixed up before we
> can do that.
>
> Anybody willing to give some LGTM on the tests, we'd be very grateful.
> And any thoughts about upgrading the default for everyone, rather than
> just for PS4, would also be welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> --paulr
>
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