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

[Chris Lattner]

On Oct 27, 2013, at 3:39 PM, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org> wrote:

> On 27 October 2013 15:25, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:
> Even better!  Can we start adopting C++'11 features in LLVM 3.3 then?
> 
> This could be one of the design guidelines: use any feature supported by the last LLVM release.
> 
> Which could force some distros to compile Clang more than once, but it could also mean people would migrate faster to more modern compilers.

I'm not sure what you mean.  Are your proposing that clang 3.4 use any features supported by clang 3.3?  If so, that won't work, because clang can't self-host on all interesting architectures, e.g. it isn't fully ABI compatible with Visual C++ (yet).

-Chris

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