Re: C++ version for GCC development

[Abdullah Siddiqui <siddiquiabdullah92@gmail.com>]

Are there no plans to use C++14 and up for further GCC development?

Waiting for your reply.

Regards,
Abdullah.

On Mon, Feb 7, 2022, 9:42 PM Abdullah Siddiqui, <
siddiquiabdullah92@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Gabriel.
>
> Thank you for the confirmation.
>
> Regards,
> Abdullah.
>
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2022, 9:21 PM Gabriel Ravier, <gabravier@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2/8/22 01:17, Abdullah Siddiqui via Gcc-help wrote:
>> > Jonathan,
>> >
>> > Thank you for the clarification.
>> >
>> > Can I still refer to the code in the GitHub repo for the latest source
>> code
>> > of GCC or is it obsolete?
>>
>> Although the repository is unofficial, it does appear to be up to date
>> with GCC's git repository (although perhaps with a few minutes/hours of
>> delay, but that shouldn't be a problem for most purposes).
>>
>> > Waiting for your reply.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Abdullah.
>> >
>> > On Mon, Feb 7, 2022, 6:35 PM Jonathan Wakely, <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 at 23:04, Abdullah Siddiqui <
>> >> siddiquiabdullah92@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Hello Jonathan.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thank you for the quick response.
>> >>>
>> >>> I got 14% from the following GitHub page:
>> >>>
>> >>> https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc
>> >>>
>> >>> Am I not looking at the correct source for the GCC source code?
>> >>>
>> >> That's an unofficial mirror that's nothing to do with the GCC project,
>> but
>> >> it does have a copy of the right sources. Those numbers are wrong
>> though.
>> >> It counts several .h and .C files as C when they are C++. It's a rough
>> >> estimate based on simple heuristics done automatically by GitHub. The
>> true
>> >> number is higher.
>> >>
>> >> It also looks like they haven't updated those numbers since April last
>> >> year, so it will wrongly count all .c files as C even the ones which
>> >> contain C++ instead. A huge number of files were renamed from .c to .cc
>> >> recently, because they contain C++ and so had a misleading .c
>> extension.
>> >> That doesn't seem to be accounted for in those numbers.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
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