Re: discussion seeked for c++ variants in USE_LANGUAGES

[Richard PALO <richard%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Le 07/07/14 11:29, Joerg Sonnenberger a écrit :
> 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.

What are the native gcc compiler versions habitually used?

Myself, I bootstrap [currently] with a gcc 4.4 compiler, then I build 
pkgsrc gcc >= 4.7 so no problem there.

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

Has anybody tried changing the c99 defaults from 'gnu99' to 'c99' to see 
what blows (like during a bulk build)?