Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/2] configure: Force the C standard to gnu99

[Thomas Huth]

On 2019-01-09 22:26, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 09/01/19 19:10, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> Using '-std=gnu++98' for g++ v4.8 looks like a good compromise to the
>> issues Daniel mentioned (still 'experimental').
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
> 
> C++11 has many new features that almost make it an entirely different
> language (the main being rvalue references, and type inference with auto
> and decltype).  If it works for GCC 4.8, I would prefer using that
> instead of g++98.

I think we can revisit that setting when we really want to introduce
code that needs it. Currently it does not seem to be necessary, so that
does not justify to use an "experimental" feature of GCC 4.8, I guess.

 Thomas