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Re: C++11 (abridged version)
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc at gmail dot com>
- Cc: GDB Patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:45:00 +0100
- Subject: Re: C++11 (abridged version)
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On 10/20/2016 08:37 PM, Yao Qi wrote:
> Hi Pedro,
> I kept silence on the discussion in the past several weeks, because
> I don't know much on C++. I can't think of any reason we should
> block C++ 11 transition. I've got "C++ Primer, fifth edition" on my
> desk. It covers C++ 11 :)
>
> It is a right thing to move to C++ 11. However, we need to think
> about the priority of each work. We still have bugs to fix, new features
> to add, patches to review. They are very important in the short term,
> next release, for example. We can't afford several months doing code
> conversion without any real development and bug fixes. Code
> conversion should be a background task, running along with development
> and bug fixes for some years.
Definitely agreed. Myself I've been spending more time on it
than I can really afford. My idea in the past weeks was to
plant the seed for others to come in and help (e.g., the
std::string patches and the gdb::unique_ptr patches). I had
no idea getting that done would take this long...
Thanks,
Pedro Alves