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

Douglas Gregor dgregor at apple.com
Thu Oct 31 10:16:31 PDT 2013


On Oct 31, 2013, at 10:12 AM, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org> wrote:

> On 31 October 2013 09:41, Douglas Gregor <dgregor at apple.com> wrote:
> Not quite :). At present, we (= Apple) still have some dependencies on building top-of-tree Clang with VS2010. We’re currently investigating how quickly we can move those to VS2012 or newer.
> 
> Hi Doug,
> 
> Good to know. Since this is mostly related to 3.5, we still have half-a-year to make sure it won't break big things.
> 

Yeah. I’d like to hear about regarding Chrome’s dependencies as well; we don’t want to break them.

> This whole discussion, in my view, was more to put the thought into our heads, so that we can plan ahead for deprecating old compilers and add language features that would make the code more readable and extensible. The time frame can stretch to accommodate people's schedules, but at least I think most of us agree it's a good move forward.

Oh, I fully agree that this is a good move forward, and I fully expect we’ll be able to make it for 3.5.

	- Doug


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