On Saturday, December 24, 2016 at 3:08:21 AM UTC+11, Nathan Froyd wrote:
> Bug 1322792 has landed on inbound, which changes configure to require
> GCC 4.9 to build; our automation switched over to GCC 4.9 for our
> Linux builds earlier this week.  (Android builds have been using GCC
> 4.9 for some time.)
> 
> This change paves the way for being able to compile in C++14 mode for
> all of our Tier-1 platforms, which in turn unlocks using some C++14
> features in our codebase:
> 
> * binary literals
> * digit separators
> * generic lambdas
> * initialized lambda captures
> * return type deduction (not quite sure if we want to use this feature widely)
> [...]
> Thanks,
> -Nathan

Excellent, thank you so much!

> paves the way for being able to compile in C++14
So, can we start using the good stuff right now, or should we wait for a proper 
"go" signal?

Cheers,
Gerald
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