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| @@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ feasibility. This is about what we can use, a superset of what we may use.
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| The gist:
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| -- C++11 the language as supported by GCC 4.7 or later is probably usable.
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| +- C++11 the language as supported by GCC 4.7 or later is pretty usable.
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| +- The C++11 standard library can generally be used, with some teething.
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| - If you break a bot, that feature is not usable.
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| -- The C++11 standard library can't generally be used.
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| - Local statics are not thread safe.
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| @@ -24,27 +24,20 @@ internal Google projects.
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| Chrome builds with a recent Clang on Mac and Linux and with a recent MSVC on
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| Windows. These toolchains are new enough to not be the weak link to use any
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| -C++11 language feature. But Chrome still supports Mac OS X 10.6, which does
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| -not ship with a C++11 standard library. So [Chrome has banned the use of the
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| -C++11 standard library](http://chromium-cpp.appspot.com/). Some header-only
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| -features are probably technically fine, but the Mac toolchain will prevent us
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| -from even trying at compile time as long as we target 10.6 as our minimum API
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| -level.
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| +C++11 language feature.
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| Chrome intentionally disables thread-safe initialization of static variables,
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| -and MSVC doesn't support it at all, so we cannot rely on that.
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| +so we cannot rely on that. Our bots disable this too, so keep an eye on TSAN.
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| -Android builds with either a recent GCC or a recent Clang. They're generally
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| -not a weak link for C++11 language features. Android's C++ standard library
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| -has always been a pain, but since we can't use it anyway (see Chrome), don't
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| -worry about it.
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| +Android builds with either a somewhat aged GCC or a recent Clang. They're
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| +generally not a weak link for C++11 language features. Android's C++ standard
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| +library had historically been a pain, but seems to work fine these days.
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| Mozilla's current weak link is a minimum requirement of GCC 4.7. Most features
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| marked in red on Mozilla's C++11 [feature
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| matrix](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Using_CXX_in_Mozilla_code) are
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| marked that way because they arrived in GCC 4.8. Their minimum-supported Clang
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| -and MSVC toolchains are great. They also appear to ban the C++ standard
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| -library.
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| +and MSVC toolchains are pretty good, but MSVC 2013 will become the weak link soon.
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| Internal Google projects tend to support C++11 completely, including the
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| full C++11 standard library.
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| @@ -57,6 +50,6 @@ Most of our bots are pretty up-to-date: the Windows bots use MSVC 2013, the Mac
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| bots a recent Clang, and the Linux bots GCC 4.8 or a recent Clang. Our Android
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| bots use a recent toolchain from Android (see above), and our Chrome bots use
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| Chrome's toolchains (see above). I'm not exactly sure what our Chrome OS bots
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| -are using, but they've never been a problem.
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| +are using. They're probably our weak link right now, though problems are rare.
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| I believe our bots' ability to use C++11 matches Mozilla's list nearly identically.
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