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

[Renato Golin]

On 27 October 2013 15:53, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:

> 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).
>

No, not yet. Certainly not for 3.4!

My comment was more to the effect that we could use this as a target for
the future (and probably never achieve it), thus why "design guideline" and
not a developer policy.

We'll have to make sure we can do it on all "interesting" architectures
first (given all constraints).

--renato
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