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authorChandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>2013-11-07 00:23:08 +0000
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Add the fact that we anticipate switching to use (some subset of) C++11
after the 3.4 release to the release notes. See the *lengthy* llvmdev and cfe-dev threads on this subject. There will be more emails, discussion and announcements, but I want to make noise in as many places as I can to get everyone's concerns voiced and understood. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@194183 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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@@ -41,6 +41,16 @@ Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
functionality, or simply have a lot to talk about), see the `NOTE` below
for adding a new subsection.
+* This is expected to be the last release of LLVM which compiles using a C++98
+ toolchain. We expect to start using some C++11 features in LLVM and other
+ sub-projects starting after this release. That said, we are committed to
+ supporting a reasonable set of modern C++ toolchains as the host compiler on
+ all of the platforms. This will at least include Visual Studio 2012 on
+ Windows, and Clang 3.1 or GCC 4.7.x on Mac and Linux. The final set of
+ compilers (and the C++11 features they support) is not set in stone, but we
+ wanted users of LLVM to have a heads up that the next release will involve
+ a substantial change in the host toolchain requirements.
+
* The regression tests now fail if any command in a pipe fails. To disable it in
a directory, just add ``config.pipefail = False`` to its ``lit.local.cfg``.
See :doc:`Lit <CommandGuide/lit>` for the details.