On Sat, Jan 7, 2017, at 08:30 PM, Alex Christensen wrote: > We are looking into using more C++14 features in WebKit, which would require > increasing the minimum supported compiler versions. For example, Yusuke’s > patch in https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165093 compiles successfully > in clang and I verified it compiles successfully in VS2017RC, but it does not > compile successfully in the minimum supported GCC version on linux because of > lack of support for C++14 extended constexpr (see > https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/cpp14-language#extended-constexpr ) > > We are not ready to require VS2017 just yet. It hasn’t even been fully > released. But there are many C++14 features that are not supported in VS2015 > (see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh567368.aspx and > https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes ) and we > would like to use these features in WebKit. > > Would the linux community be able to increase the minimum supported GCC > version?
For the record, GCC 5 has complete C++14 support. The current requirement is 4.9, so the bump would be minimal. https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx-status.html#cxx14 _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
