[cmake-developers] C++11 and target_compiler_feature proposal

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Fri Oct 25 09:11:04 EDT 2013


On 10/25/2013 09:02 AM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> For 'broken' things like cxx_initializer_lists and cxx_variadic_templates, I 
> recommend that we enable the feature if the compiler vendor says it is 
> available. 

Yes, I think that makes sense.  The problem with trying to report
"broken" ourselves is that only the project knows if the feature
is "too broken" for it.  Developers using these bleeding-edge
language features are used to conditional workarounds in their
code anyway.

-Brad



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