[LLVMdev] Using C++'11 language features in LLVM itself

[Marc J. Driftmeyer]

Seeing as I'm using OS X and Debian Sid which is on GCC 4.7.2-5 which 
moved over to Wheezy for Debian 7 release it seems more reasonable to 
target that than using Ubuntu's 4.6.x which is never more conservative 
than Debian on releases.

- Marc

P.S. I'm more interested in actually seeing if this will improve an 
actual smooth installation of libc++ with llvm/clang/compiler-rt trunk 
so I can actually start using libc++ on Linux and not have to hack 
around to get it working. Get that going and I'm sure with Debian's dual 
FreeBSD/Linux building of Deb packages with LLVM/Clang you'll get plenty 
of community testing.


On 01/08/2013 04:24 PM, dag at cray.com wrote:
> Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> writes:
>
>> It's seems like a quiet and peaceful day, lets stir things up a bit :)
>>
>> How crazy would it be for us to start using basic C++'11 language
>> features (but not C++'11 library features) in LLVM: things like auto,
>> rvalue-refs, lambdas, etc?  I think that we can keep things well
>> defined with a few simple requirements: language features must be
>> supported by MSVC 2010 and later, some version of GCC and later (linux
>> folks should pick?), some version of Clang and later (Freebsd folks?).
> Note that this is NOT an official message from Cray in any way, shape or
> form.  I've passed on your note to our group for information but I don't
> expect a serious problem with this given enough lead time.
>
> I am personally very much in favor of this.  C++11 really is a huge leap
> from C++03 in terms of readability, maintainability and safety.
>
> Why not C++11 libraries?  Implementation/capatability reasons?  I don't
> know anything about how the various implementation compare in terms of
> completeness.  But the libraries use the new language features and
> theoretically you get a performance boost "for free."
>
> I'm assuming we wouldn't release an llvm with C++11 until 3.4 at least
> which gives folks a good 8 months to a year to prepare.  Doing it in a
> 3.3 release shortens that considerably but it might be ok.  The biggest
> issue for groups like ours is upgrading the compiler we use to build our
> compiler.  We have a LOT of components and they all have to work with
> the new build environment.  It involves a lot of testing and assurance
> which is where we might bump up against a 3.3 release, not having a new
> compiler in place before 3.3 is out.
>
> As for gcc version, it looks like 4.7.2 is in Debian Wheezy and that's
> usually the most common distribution to lag behind in these kinds of
> things.  I think that's sufficiently new for Linux but someone correct
> me if that's wrong.
>
>                                -David
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