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

[Chris Lattner]

On Jan 11, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at google.com> wrote:

>>> Does that seem reasonable - or at least acceptable - for everyone?
>> 
>> 
>> My only concern is the GCC version.  If we bump up to 4.5 (which eliminates
>> the current crop of "enterprise" Linux distros on 4.4), why not set it at
>> 4.6, which is the default on reasonably current LTS distros like Ubuntu
>> 12.04?

Sure, I don't have a strong opinion on the matter.

> I suppose this tradeoff can be evaluated by looking at the delta
> between 4.5 and 4.6 which is actually supported by MSVC 2010 and Clang
> 3.1

Makes perfect sense to me.

-Chris