[Development] Qt and gcc5

[Knoll Lars]

On 28/05/15 22:11, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:

>On Thursday 28 May 2015 21:49:57 Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
>> Slightly offtopic. Reading the link they have an interesting idea about
>>ABI 
>> tagging method interfaces. Could we use that in Qt too, when introducing
>> new variants of methods, for instance to replace the constexpr hacks?
>
>I haven't investigated yet how we could do this kind of thing. It's also
>difficult to justify a feature that requires GCC 4.9 or later...

As it’s a gcc 5 only feature it’s really hard for us to use. If someone
can show me similar mechanisms in both clang and recent Microsoft
compilers we can start discussing :)

Cheers,
Lars