New candidate JEP: 362: Deprecate the Solaris and SPARC Ports (original) (raw)

Baesken, Matthias matthias.baesken at sap.com
Wed Nov 6 13:00:50 UTC 2019

* Adopting a newer version of the C++ standard We’re looking at adopting a newer version of the C++ standard (C++14 or C++17) along with the features that come with it. Oracle Studio does not support the full C++14 standard, and AFAIK does not support C++17 at all.

Hello,

The Oracle® Developer Studio 12.6: C++ User's Guide from 2017 says :

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E77782_01/pdf/E77789.pdf

"Oracle Developer Studio12.6 provides full support for C++11"

"Oracle Developer Studio12.6 provides full support for the C++14 Standard"

(chapters 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 ).

So C++14 features should not be an issue on Solaris . What C++17 features do you plan to use (this might be also interesting for our AIX port, so it needs to be handled carefully) ? I think we have to be very careful with using new features of the C++ standard , with or without deprecating / removing Solaris and SPARC Ports .

( there is also the option to use gcc on Solaris but that was mentioned already so I do not want to repeat it )

Best regards, Matthias

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