Re: Go C++ only

[Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at polymtl dot ca>]

On 2016-09-01 13:32, Pedro Alves wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As last discussed, the general consensus was to make 7.12
> the last gdb version that supports building with a C compiler.
>
> I've been holding proposing to drop C-mode support in master
> with the idea that that would help with all the bugfix
> backporting going on.  I've had to explain this several times
> recently, as people are eager to use C++ features.  Multiple
> times this week, even.
>
> At this point the backporting rate is quite low though, so
> maybe it no longer makes that much sense to hold C++ back,
> at least in new code.
>
> What do people think?  Time to march ahead?
>
> Thanks,
> Pedro Alves

Are there some guidelines about which C++ features we can use or not?  
Perhaps some precisions about the coding style, for C++-specific 
constructs (e.g. initializer lists).  I suppose we'll end up copying 
what GCC does for the most part, but it should be clear.

Thanks!

Simon