Nevin Liber wrote:
On 23 November 2011 13:09, Robert Ramey <ramey@rrsd.com> wrote:
I forsee a messy transitional stage which a lot of old libraries start to fail with C11x
Why?
As time goes on, newer libraries and updates will start to become dependent upon C++11 features. This will be a problem for those who work with compilers which don't yet incorportate the C++11 features. So they'll be stuck for a while. And it's not clear from looking at the library documentation what it depends on.
There are some minor incompatibilities between C++03 and C++11, but using Boost with C++11 switched on seems to be going smoothly.
That's good to hear. But won't we get a lot of test matrix failures with a lot of compilers we test with as soon as C++11 features start getting used? Won't this create a problem that will have to be addressed somehow? Robert Ramey