[Interest] C++11 in Qt5

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Mon Jun 11 23:06:06 CEST 2012


On segunda-feira, 11 de junho de 2012 13.35.56, Scott Aron Bloom wrote:
> http://woboq.com/blog/cpp11-in-qt5.html
> 
> 
> 
> Can someone part of the Qt project, explain the reasoning for this...
> 
> While in general I love the idea... In specific, I have had customers
> that are 5-10 years behind in their compiler choice..
> 
> Usually in the embedded world, where the processor doesn't have a
> current version of gcc, but this does worry me that many people will be
> excluded from Qt 5.0

They won't be excluded.

They'll just have worse code generated. But if they're using compilers that 
are 3 years old or more, it's their own fault.

Most embedded systems can use GCC 4.6 or even 4.7. Certainly the most common 
processors can.

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