[Interest] C++11 in Qt5

[Scott Aron Bloom]

Yes you can... Not Qt 4... But you can build Qt :)

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From: interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt-project.org [mailto:interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 2:49 PM
To: interest at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Interest] C++11 in Qt5

You cannot build Qt with GCC 2.4.

On 12/06/12 00:19, Scott Aron Bloom wrote:
> I would say almost all NEW embedded systems..
>
> However, I can tell you, I had a client last year stuck on gcc 2.4, because the CPU vendor who put out the gcc tool chain, never updated them, and those with hardware chains they didn't want to (or couldn't) update were SOL.
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt-project.org 
> [mailto:interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt-project.org] On 
> Behalf Of Thiago Macieira
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 2:06 PM
> To: interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Interest] C++11 in Qt5
>
> 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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> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
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