RE: redundant option to select c++ dialect options in 4.7.0?

["Mailaripillai, Kannan Jeganathan (STSD)" <kannanmj@xxxxxx>]

> What does it hurt?

I was going through 4.7.0 GCC manual. Under section "2.2 C++ language" there 
was no mention of "c++0x" though it is accepted by the compiler. I think it 
is better we mention it (in the manual) and its deprecation plan in the 
future release to avoid surprise to the end user of the compiler.

Regards,
Kannan

-----Original Message-----
From: gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marc Glisse
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 11:10 AM
To: Mailaripillai, Kannan Jeganathan (STSD)
Cc: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: redundant option to select c++ dialect options in 4.7.0?

On Tue, 24 Apr 2012, Mailaripillai, Kannan Jeganathan (STSD) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have -std=c++0x and -std=c++11 options recognized by 4.7.0 compiler.
> Do we really need to accept (going forward) -std=c++0x when we have
> -std=c++11 option to select the c++11 standard?

Yes, for a few releases, for backward compatibility. What does it hurt?

-- 
Marc Glisse