Re: discussion seeked for c++ variants in USE_LANGUAGES

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 07:46:04AM +0200, Richard PALO wrote:
> Not finding much discussion about c++ variants in USE_LANGUAGES, I'd
> like to open this topic with a proposal to add 'c++0x', 'c++11',
> 'c++1y' and probably very soon 'c++14' where the default c++ (in gcc
> at least) is c++98 plus extensions (aka gnu++98.

c++0x should not be added, at most the compiler logic should use it for
c++11. That said, I'm not sure how useful it is for older GCC version,
given that e.g. GCC 4.5 is lacking a lot of the language features.

The other consideration is whether the language standard should be
gnuc++11 or c++11.

Joerg