[Interest] How do you want to select exactly C++11 with GCC 6+?

[Thiago Macieira]

On quinta-feira, 9 de março de 2017 05:13:28 PDT Thiago Macieira wrote:
> This is a straw poll to see if we should change qmake's behaviour for Qt
> 5.9.
> 
> GCC 6 and ICC 17, in the absence of -std= comipler options, default ot
> C++14. So I have two questions:
> 
> 1) is there a need for qmake to provide a way to select *exactly* C++11, not
> a later, available version?
> 
> 2) if the answer is "yes", how would you prefer to do so?
> 	option I:		CONFIG += c++11
> 	option II:	CONFIG -= c++14		(obviously disables later editions too)
> 
> I want to first get just gut feeling, so I won't post pros and cons of the
> approaches.

Conclusion from this thread is that there is no consensus.

Therefore, I will do nothing and will leave the behaviour exactly as is. That 
is, option I.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center