Hi Nilay,

Good points. clang 3.1 would match gcc 4.7 (and then some).

Andreas

On 15/06/2015 17:07, "Nilay Vaish" <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, Andreas Hansson wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We are really keen to adopt gcc 4.7 as a minimum requirement, thus
>>enabling the following c++11 features:
>>
>> 1. Explicit virtual overrides
>> 2. Non-static data member initializers
>> 3. Template aliases
>> 4. Delegating constructors
>>
>> Switching to gcc 4.7 would also allow us to finally transition from
>>--std=c++0x to --std=c++11.
>>
>> All major distros are shipping with gcc >= 4.7, also for LTS releases.
>>The potential challenge is RHE6 and its derivatives (and perhaps even
>>the odd Ubuntu 12.04 installation).
>>
>> Any major objections? Thoughts?
>>
>
>Seems fine to me. GCC 4.7 has been around for three years and we made a
>similar switch last year as well. Do we need to bump clang as well?
>
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