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

[Aaron Ballman via cfe-dev]

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Reid Kleckner via cfe-dev
<cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Mehdi Amini via cfe-dev
> <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 2, 2017, at 10:57 PM, Robinson, Paul <paul.robinson at sony.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Obviously in some cases target-specific defaults make a lot of sense --
>> for instance if we know that a target or its ABI or toolchain simply doesn't
>> support some feature, or needs special support for something -- but in the
>> absence of a strong reason, we should generally aim for all targets to
>> behave roughly the same.
>>
>> And in our case, the PS4 target simply doesn't support dialects other than
>> C++11, therefore the target-specific default makes sense.
>>
>>
>> I gave an alternative view that shows that “it makes sense” is not
>> obvious.
>
>
> FWIW we already default to C++11 in an MSVC environment, regardless of the
> driver used, because it's required to compile the MSVC STL headers. It's
> pretty close to Paul's use case of "the PS4 target simply doesn't support
> dialects other than C++11". There's definitely prior art here.
>
> +1 to what James said, we should just raise the language standard across the
> board.

+1

~Aaron

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