Re: [boost] [1.56.0] Release candidates available

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.56.0] Release candidates available
From: Eric Niebler (eniebler_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-07-30 13:17:58

On 7/30/2014 10:15 AM, Jason Roehm wrote:
> 
> On 07/30/2014 01:12 PM, Eric Niebler wrote:
>> Thanks for the patch. My opinion is that we should hold on to this fix
>> and consider rolling it into a point release shortly after 1.56.0. My
>> reasoning is that the but doesn't have very broad scope for causing
>> problems (it only affects GCC 4.4, which is over 4 years old).
> 
> Just making sure: is the problem in question only triggered in C++11
> mode? Note that gcc 4.4 is the version provided by the RHEL6-based Linux
> distributions, which are still in pretty wide use. I doubt that many
> users are attempting to use "-std=c++0x" with that old of a compiler
> though.

The patch only changes code using rvalue references, so I would say yes,
this only affects people using -std=c++0x.

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