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

[Tom Honermann]

On 01/09/2013 02:52 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:
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> On Jan 9, 2013, at 3:03 AM, Óscar Fuentes <ofv at wanadoo.es> wrote:
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>> Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> writes:
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>>> 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?

Probably not.  VS2010  is the limiting factor.  Microsoft documents 
their current support for C++11 features in VS2010 and VS2012 here:
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh567368%28VS.110%29.aspx

Tom.