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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fair enough.

Once Ubuntu 16.04 hits, we'll have gcc >= 4.9 on all platforms we 
target, meaning this entire page will be filled in: 
https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/C11Status

I know you're tired of hearing it, so I'll drop it - though my personal 
view is that it brings a number of features we could make good use of to 
write cleaner and safer code, and we could benefit from it fairly 
significantly. I definitely understand the hesitance to make a change 
that blocks out platforms older than $X, though, particularly when $X is 
not vastly far in the past.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 06:37:49PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> On 1/14/2016 2:51 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > For what it's worth...
> > 
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/cxx0x_status.html
> > 
> > As of GCC 4.8.1, C++11 is pretty much fully supported. They use the term 
> > "experimental", but they do list everything and say "yes" to almost 
> > everything. Is there some compatibility issue I'm missing here? It looks 
> > to me like we can build C++11 on /all/ our supported platforms now.
> 
> "Pretty much fully supported" doe not instill me with a lot of
> confidence. :)
> 
> > 
> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 01:35:36AM +0000, Jon Neal wrote:
> >> Just read this the other day and figured it would be good to discuss before
> >> it happens.
> >>
> >> GCC is going to be defaulting to C++14 for compiler flags when GCC 6 is
> >> released in ~6 months. I browsed the CMakeLists.txt in the root directory
> >> and didn't see anything about setting a standard. Nowish would be a good
> >> time to pick a C++ standard and put it in there.
> >>
> >> I know Wayne has mentioned in the recent past the wish to not switch to
> >> C++11 yet[1] which I understand. FWIW when the next Ubuntu LTS is released
> >> in 3 months the gcc provided will have C++11 out of experimental. Just food
> >> for thought.
> >>
> >> Jon
> > 
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