On Tuesday, 17 September 2019 16:05:34 PDT Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development wrote: > While I agree that at the moment it has virtually never happened, it > doesn't mean it couldn't happen in the future. Even today we have > compilers such as MSVC with "living on the edge" compile flags > (/c++latest). Our users can use those, and thus potentially trigger > codepaths that on their specific compiler version are implemented in a > pre-Standard way. > > So, how academic (I think should I say paranoid...) do we want to be?
Marc's proposal is that we should accept that these things are rare and simply correct when they do happen. Since our code is tested with the currently latest versions of all compilers, we're fairly sure that any such macro works with the compilers that currently support the feature. When a new compiler comes out with the feature, we may get compilation errors. Our users understand that we cannot test things that don't exist, so older versions can fail to compile on new compilers (or produce a lot of warnings). Issuing fixes is enough. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel System Software Products _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
