On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Ed Smith-Rowland <3dw...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 07/31/2014 07:03 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> >> I believe the GCC project has become too large to be able to usefully >> speak about breaking compatibility with previous versions. There are >> too many different moving parts. We break compatibility in various >> minor ways with every release. We try pretty hard to never break >> compatibility in a big way. Historically, as far as I can recall, the >> GCC major release number has never indicated a compatibility break >> that was relevant to most users. >> > What about bumping the default compiler front end versions to C11 or C++11 > or C++14? Even for bootstrap? > There may be some breaking changes that are larger than the usual.
C++ is only one of several languages supported by GCC these days. Changing the default C++ version will not affect Fortran, Java, or Ada users. Or, for that matter, C users. Ian
