On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 8:57 AM Roy Stogner <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, Cody Permann wrote: > > > No garbage collection expands compatibility a lot? I'm on my phone > > so I can't easily check, but I thought the smart pointers were all > > well supported in some of the earlier versions of C++11 compilers. > > They are really handy and I'm not sure if your garbage collection > > line includes them or not. > > It doesn't. We *definitely* want the new smart pointers. The garbage > collection stuff is here: > > http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2670.htm > > And other than as (standard-allowed!) no-ops there doesn't seem to be > much love for it among implementors. > > > Your compiler versions are so close to ours (MOOSE), that for greedy > > reasons I'd enjoy seeing parity between them to ease testing and > > integration. If no others are stuck on a small minor or patch > > release, perhaps we could reconcile that before taking the plunge. > > > See our minimum compilers at the top of this link: > > http://mooseframework.org/getting-started/ > > I think we've got RHEL 7 people to support... which apparently has > released updates to gcc all the way to 4.8.5? I was under the > impression that they were stuck on 4.8.2 for some reason. +1 > > Your Intel version is 14.0? That seems to support everything except > the new alignment stuff, inheriting constructors, user-defined > literals... and a *bunch* of multithreading standards. We've got > working alternatives in the threading cases, I could forgo inheriting > constructors, Hmm, I already stuck one of these in MOOSE, but it's not widespread. I haven't had any problems with it... > and I'm not interested in micromanaging alignment or > defining our own literals, so 14.0 sounds reasonable, as long as you > guys are doing the CI for it. > --- > Roy > if you don't hear any grips, this is looking really good. Using the same compilers we use will definitely simplify our lives. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Libmesh-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-users
