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

[Chris Lattner]

On Jan 9, 2013, at 3:03 AM, Óscar Fuentes <ofv at wanadoo.es> wrote:

> Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> writes:
> 
>> Wow, requiring GCC 4.7 would be really aggressive, it was just
>> released in March 2012. Call me conservative, but I was thinking that
>> a reasonable GCC baseline would be GCC 4.4 or something (which is ~3.5
>> years old).
> 
> The feature intersection of GCC 4.4 and VS2010 leaves us with auto and
> static_assert.

Ok, that's too minor to be worth the trouble.  Would the intersection of GCC 4.5 VS2010 be practical?

-Chris