From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10492 invoked by alias); 20 Oct 2016 19:41:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 10476 invoked by uid 89); 20 Oct 2016 19:41:26 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:584, citation, policy X-HELO: eggs.gnu.org Received: from eggs.gnu.org (HELO eggs.gnu.org) (208.118.235.92) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 19:41:16 +0000 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxJDC-0000bR-Cu for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:41:15 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51036) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxJDC-0000bN-AL; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:41:10 -0400 Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1834 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bxJDB-00028r-8c; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:41:09 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 19:41:00 -0000 Message-Id: <8337jqu7uf.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Pedro Alves CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <73e72f21-8acf-1332-08f3-c2c92448c7b8@redhat.com> (message from Pedro Alves on Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:09:18 +0100) Subject: Re: C++11 (abridged version) Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <4300d24a-8711-c5de-79ce-7c530162288c@redhat.com> <83d1iuu9i0.fsf@gnu.org> <73e72f21-8acf-1332-08f3-c2c92448c7b8@redhat.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-10/txt/msg00615.txt.bz2 > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org > From: Pedro Alves > Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:09:18 +0100 > > ~~~~ > Going forward past C++11, since "reasonable availability" is not > quantifiable, Eli suggested the policy of > > "(...) waiting until the oldest compiler which supports that newer > standard is at least 3 years old (like GCC 4.8.1 is today)." > > And I agree with that. (I'd prefix it with "at least".) > ~~~~ > > I hope to have not misquoted you. If I have, I apologize. No need to apologize, the citation is accurate. Thanks.