> I don't see a reason not to other than a pretty small amount of work > each time we make a release.
I'm not sure it would be so small an amount of work, especially on non-Linux platforms, so this would IMO divert our resources for little benefit. > Well first this would only matter to the 0.01% of people who want to do > that on AIX or Solaris machines, not the vast majority of possible > contributors who already use clang or gcc as there system compiler. Yes, but we're GCC, not Clang, and we support more than Linux and Darwin. > Thirdly making it easier to work on the compiler and understand it makes > things easier for those possible contributors, so if being able to use > C++11 advances that goalthings could be better over all for possible > contributors with different system compilers. I don't buy this at all. You don't need bleeding edge C++ features to build a compiler and people don't work on compilers to use bleeding edge C++. Using a narrow and sensible set of C++ features was one of the conditions under which the switch to C++ as implementation language was accepted at the time. -- Eric Botcazou
