On Sun, 19 May 2019 at 10:43, Makarius <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 19/05/2019 17:46, Matthew Fernandez wrote:
> >
> > If I understand the version numbering correctly, those MinGW versions
> are derived from GCC 4.9.3 which supports C++11.
>
> Such claims of supporting certain standards are rarely accurate. It
> usually takes years to make things really work. See also this reply on
> the old thread:
> http://lists.inf.ed.ac.uk/pipermail/polyml/2017-December/002139.html


Agreed, but you can get a pretty accurate record from
https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/projects/cxx-status.html#cxx11 which shows
everything relevant was completed before 4.9. In practice, I have not
experienced anything that makes me doubt this table.


> I am all for bumping up that old MinGW build environment, but it is up
> to David Matthews to do something about it, or leave the status-quo
> unchanged.
>
>
>         Makarius
>
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