Re: [boost] Libraries and C++ compliance

Subject: Re: [boost] Libraries and C++ compliance
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-04-11 09:54:26

On 04/11/17 02:24, Gavin Lambert via Boost wrote:
> On 11/04/2017 04:57, Edward Diener via Boost wrote:
>> On 4/10/2017 10:53 AM, Niall Douglas via Boost wrote:
>>> The newer MSVC's now have a /std: switch. You'll be glad to know it
>>> doesn't follow the same semantics as -std= because well, it's Microsoft.
>>
>> The new MSVC remains completely undocumented more than one month after
>> it has been released, so whatever /std: switch it does have is guesswork
>> AFAICS. But yes, if the new MSVC has such a switch it is an advance over
>> the previous versions which just offered a single level of C++
>> compliance, whatever it was, which the end-user had to understand
>> exactly.
>
> There's an official blog post about it:
>
> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/06/07/standards-version-switches-in-the-compiler/

Blog is not documentation. One should not be required to follow blogs or 
other social media to know how to use a compiler.