On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 01:54:49PM -0400, Nathan Froyd wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@hsivonen.fi> wrote:
> > Cool! Thank you!
> >
> > What impact, if anything, does this have on
> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1208262 (adopting
> > Microsoft's Guidelines Support Library or an approximation thereof)?
> 
> It gets us closer to a world where the standard library capabilities
> assumed by the Guidelines Support Library (GSL) exist.  The bug
> comments suggest that C++14 compiler support is required; judging from
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Using_CXX_in_Mozilla_code ,
> the blocker on the C++14 compiler front is GCC 4.9, and we only
> require GCC 4.8.  (I'm assuming that the C++14 features that MSVC 2015
> doesn't implement are also features that don't get used in the GSL.)
> And then after than, we need to ensure our standard libraries have all
> the C++14 bits required (OS X and Android may not).

... and whether they are exceptions safe. And whether GSL is exceptions
safe.

Mike
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