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.
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