[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] RFC: A proposal to move toward using C++11 features in LLVM & Clang / bounding support for old host compilers

[dag at cray.com]

Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com> writes:

>     As far as I know no decision on specific versions has been made.
>
> To quote my summary email: "This will at least include Visual Studio
> 2012 on Windows, and Clang 3.1 or GCC 4.7.x on Mac and Linux."

4.7.x is not a specific version.

> The biggest debate has been around 2010 vs. 2012 (we decided 2012 was
> viable and desirable), and on which value of 'x' to use in GCC 4.7.x.
> My suggestion would be "whatever version of 'x' is on your distro",
> and if other distributions come with other versions, we'll test them
> and try to make them work. 4.7.0 was fairly broken, but 4.7.1 seems to
> have been quite stable and to have gotten into essentially all of the
> recent releases I've checked. I've not heard any objections to these
> versions with specific problems they present.

I don't care about specific versions, just that we have one.

                        -David