On Wednesday, 7 June 2017 15:10:57 PDT Thiago Macieira wrote:
> * Unicode strings
> * unrestricted unions
>
> Another benefit is that MSVC 2017 and 2015 are supposedly binary compatible
> with each other. With care, we can even use this feature in Qt.
>
> If we require MSVC 2015 with the most recent update (which is over a year
> old now), in addition we get:
> * attributes
> * thread-safe statics (finally! could drop the fallback from
> Q_GLOBAL_STATIC! oh, wait, Apple...)
> * uniform initialisation (without having to check if it really works)
Another benefit of requiring MSVC 2015 with updates:
Our sources can FINALLY be UTF-8 clean, as that compiler understands the
/utf-8 option. That means QStringLiteral(x) can contain any arbitrary UTF-8
text where x is.
As well as string concatenation:
QStringLiteral("Hello " "world");
===>
I move we drop MSVC 2013, MSVC 2015 RTM and Updates 1 & 2 (Update 3 is the
current version and is fine).
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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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