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Re: [patch] Extend AC_PROG_CXX to check for standards conformance


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [patch] Extend AC_PROG_CXX to check for standards conformance
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:47:05 -0800
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Thanks for doing that.

I don't use C++, so I'm not the best person to review this patch.
But from a quick look I can see one thing missing: the documentation
needs updating.

One other thing:

On 01/20/2013 01:27 PM, Roger Leigh wrote:
> it's useful to restrict the compiler to a minimum standard
> so that you can
> - prevent the use of features you don't want to use
> - ensure that the features you do want are present

In practice, for C at least, almost nobody wants the
former, and Autoconf already does the latter, so it's
good enough.



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