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

[David Chisnall via cfe-dev]

On 19 May 2017, at 02:56, Richard Smith via cfe-dev <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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> Agreed. I think there's sufficient (although not unanimous) agreement that we should increase our default language standard; what we need is for someone to work through the immediate fallout from doing so (particularly in the test suite). Sooner is better: we need as much time as possible to fix any issues uncovered prior to Clang 5. Sadly I don't have time to work on this right now; volunteers would be very welcome!

If there is a patch, we can try applying it to the base system compiler and clang from ports and try building the FreeBSD ports collection.  My expectation is that we’ll have to fix a few thousand ports and this will cause us vast quantities of pain for no practical benefit, but we can run the experiment...

David