[squid-dev] FYI: the C++11 roadmap

[Amos Jeffries]

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On 6/05/2014 2:21 a.m., Amos Jeffries wrote:
> I have just announced the change in 3.4.5 regarding C++11 support
> and accompanied it with a notice that GCC verion 4.8 is likely to
> become the minimum version later this calendar year.
> 
> As it stands (discussed earlier):
> 
> * Squid-3.4 needs to build with any GCC 4.0+ version with C++03.
> 
> * Squid-3.6 will need to build with C++11.
> 
> * The Squid-3.5 situation is still in limbo and will depend on how
> long we go before it branches.

Squid-3.5 retains GCC 4.0+ support shared with older versions.

> 
> We have a growing list of items needing C++11 features for simpler 
> implementation. At this point I am going to throw a peg out and say
> Sept or Oct for starting to use C++11 specific code features.

This "peg" has now moved to Nov. The code cleanup and polishing
patches now going into trunk work fine with C++11 builds but possibly
not with compilers older than Clang 3.3 or GCC 4.8.

Amos

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