> From: "Ehsan Akhgari" <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 5:03:31 PM
> Subject: Re: Switching to Visual Studio 2013
> 
> I would like us to update the minimum supported MSVC version to 2012 as
> soon as possible.  That will give us access to the following C++
> features which are all supported on gcc 4.4 (aka our Vintage Compiler)
> and MSVC starting from 2012:
> 
> * Variadic templates
> * Strongly typed enums
> * Initializer lists
> * The ability to use decltype for non-trivial things (MSVC2010's
> decltype support is pretty buggy)

As well as the C++11 <atomic> subsystem, which did not appear until MSVC2012:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh874894%28v=vs.110%29.aspx

--lars
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