[Development] Proposing to officially allow C++20 types in Qt 6 ABIs

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Mon Jan 31 17:09:57 CET 2022


On Monday, 31 January 2022 02:04:46 PST Lars Knoll wrote:
> We upgrade the default to C++20, but keep things compiling in C++17 mode. If
> we do that, we should however consider upgrading our minimum compiler
> requirements for the binaries (ie desktop and mobile platforms) to
> compilers that support C++20. In addition, we’ll need to add testing of
> C++17 builds in CI.

We don't need to do any of that. We don't to test that ABI-breaking options 
compile. Whoever uses them assumes the responsibility for any breakages and 
must have the will to submit patches to fix any issues they encounter. Don't 
report bugs.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel DPG Cloud Engineering





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