RE: [PATCH 1/3] Introduce gdb::unique_ptr

["Metzger, Markus T" <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>]

Sorry, I did not intend to start such a heated discussion.

I think we got hung up on the perceived requirement of having to build
your own GCC.  The discussion got a bit too abstract and mentioning GCC 6
as the first to default to C++11 may have been confusing in the heat of the
discussion as "GCC 6 defaults to C++11" may have been misread as "C++11
requires GCC 6".

A simple and pragmatic solution would be a patch to add -std=c++11
to GDB's compiler options.  Pedro already mentioned it but I'm afraid it
got lost.

This documents the required language version and also prevents people
from accidentally using C++14/17/?? features and not noticing it until one of
the buildbot builders complained.

I don't think that requiring C++11 is entirely unreasonable and IMHO
preferable to back-porting standard library features.

Should I be wrong and C++11 is really not doable, I like Pedro's patch
for giving the direction towards C++11.  I would still add a compiler option
to enforce C++03 for the above reasons.

Regards,
Markus.

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