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

Tim Northover t.p.northover at gmail.com
Mon Nov 11 20:48:50 PST 2013


> My point is that we can't tell users we support 4.7.x and then expect
> them to just change their compiler if someone adds a c++11 feature that
> is broken on whatever 4.7.x version of gcc they have chosen.

Yes we can. Somewhere there's a line between unsupported features and
buggy compilers. That's not automatically at "whatever 4.7.0 compiles
correctly". Otherwise we'd have to disallow any statement.

Tim.



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