[llvm-dev] Are C++17 host applications supported?

[Machiel van Hooren via llvm-dev]

Compiler.h seems to be all about feature detection.  There may be other 
issues related to feature detection that are still undiscovered and it's 
hard to prevent new issues from being introduced this way.

Perhaps a better solution is to explicitly not support the mixing of C++ 
standards between the LLVM libraries and the application that's using 
them. This would for the most part squash this class of bugs. An error 
would need to be generated at compile time of the application if mixed 
standards are detected.

This does not mean that C++17 applications are not supported, just that 
you'd have to also compile LLVM with C++17 enabled.

Machiel

On 26-Nov-19 05:46, Zachary Turner wrote:
> We don’t claim it’s unsupported, therefore by default it should be 
> supported imo.  That said, I don’t think anyone has ever explicitly 
> asked this or tried it before. Usually these types of things are 
> community supported — ie someone sees a problem and takes t upon 
> themselves to fix it.
>
> So I think it’s reasonable to move these implementations to the cpp 
> file as you suggested in the bug report
>