Re: [boost] C++03 / C++11 compatibility question for compiled libraries

Subject: Re: [boost] C++03 / C++11 compatibility question for compiled libraries
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-02-11 03:38:17

Niall Douglas wrote:
> >> Moving to using a C++11 compliant compiler is not a big step IMO,
> >
> > It is if you use MSVC because there isn't one yet. :-)
>
> I've been deliberately adding nothing to this thread ... but this is 
> unfair. VS2017.5 implements enough of C++ 14, let alone C++ 11, that 
> little code not relying on the correctness of preprocessor would notice 
> the deficiencies from the standard. Even two phase lookup mostly seems to 
> work now.

It was a joke. But I actually had constexpr (the C++11 kind) in mind, not 
the preprocessor or C++03 things.

I have admittedly not tested with 1912, but it didn't yet quite work with 
1911.