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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: "Metzger, Markus T" <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>,
	"gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introduce gdb::unique_ptr
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161011121639.GE3813@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac1fe3e9-069c-a26e-e790-438b6ff3d3e9@redhat.com>

> I think it would make a lot of sense to switch to C++11.  I'd love
> that.  rvalue references support, move-aware containers, "auto",
> std::unique_ptr and std::shared_ptr would be all very nice to have.
> 
> The only question in my mind is -- are people OK with requiring
> gcc 4.8 or later?

FWIW, I think it is fine to require C++11 if there are sufficient
benefits we can derive from it. This seems like a good example
of something we could simplify greatly if we did?

Note that I wouldn't necessarily think in purely in terms of which
version of GCC supports it, but also consider whether want to support
building GDB with non-GCC compilers, particularly on the more exotic
systems out there, where it can be hard to build GDB. Do all these
compilers support C++11? Probably not.  This is where it becomes
a judgment call for me.  Making it easy to build with other compilers
by limiting which parts of the language we can use helps getting wider
use of GDB; but on the other hand, if it comes at too much of a cost
in terms of the code and its maintenance, then it seems better overall
to increase our list of requirements.

-- 
Joel


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-11 12:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-10 16:46 [PATCH 0/3] More cleanup elimination / gdb::unique_ptr Pedro Alves
2016-10-10 16:46 ` [PATCH 3/3] 'struct parse_expression *' -> gdb::unique_ptr<expression> Pedro Alves
2016-10-10 16:46 ` [PATCH 1/3] Introduce gdb::unique_ptr Pedro Alves
2016-10-10 17:49   ` Simon Marchi
2016-10-10 18:03     ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-11  6:48   ` Metzger, Markus T
2016-10-11 10:23     ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-11 10:53       ` Andreas Schwab
2016-10-11 11:17       ` Metzger, Markus T
2016-10-11 11:43         ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-11 13:58           ` Yao Qi
2016-10-11 14:05           ` Trevor Saunders
2016-10-11 12:16       ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2016-10-11 13:46         ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-11 14:47           ` Joel Brobecker
2016-10-11 15:17             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-11 16:24               ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-11 16:58                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-11 17:41                   ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-11 18:37                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-11 19:19                       ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-11 20:47                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-11 21:32                           ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-12  6:34                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12  8:11                               ` Metzger, Markus T
2016-10-12  9:31                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12 10:12                                   ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-12 11:05                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12 11:25                                       ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-12 11:45                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-13 12:12                                           ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-12 10:28                                 ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-12 11:07                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12 11:19                                     ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-12 11:41                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12 11:55                                         ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-13  0:38                                   ` [PATCH] Enable C++11 starting with gcc 4.8 (was: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introduce gdb::unique_ptr) Pedro Alves
2016-10-13  0:45                                     ` [PATCH 1/2] gdb: Import AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX from the GNU Autoconf Archive Pedro Alves
2016-10-13  0:45                                     ` [PATCH 2/2] gdb: Enable C++11 if available Pedro Alves
2016-10-12  9:37                               ` [PATCH 1/3] Introduce gdb::unique_ptr Pedro Alves
2016-10-12 10:51                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12 11:15                                   ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-12 11:40                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12 11:45                                   ` Jan Kratochvil
2016-10-12 11:56                                     ` Luis Machado
2016-10-12 12:03                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-13  9:07                                       ` Jan Kratochvil
2016-10-13 10:07                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-13 10:27                                           ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-13 13:22                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-13 13:36                                               ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-13 13:59                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-13 14:04                                                   ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-13 15:06                                                     ` Joel Brobecker
2016-10-13 10:46                                           ` Jan Kratochvil
2016-10-13 11:15                                             ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-13 13:28                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-13 13:42                                               ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-13 14:07                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-11 19:23                       ` Simon Marchi
2016-10-11 20:54                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-11 21:28                           ` Simon Marchi
2016-10-12  6:23                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-11 21:16                         ` Jan Kratochvil
2016-10-11 17:15                 ` Luis Machado
2016-10-11 18:21                   ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-10 16:58 ` [PATCH 0/3] More cleanup elimination / gdb::unique_ptr Pedro Alves
2016-10-16  7:05   ` Tom Tromey
2016-10-17 13:57     ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-17 14:07       ` Tom Tromey
2016-10-17 14:59         ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-20 13:46   ` Pedro Alves

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