[MESOS-1070] Extend configure script checks for C++11 features

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 0.18.0
• Labels: tech-debt
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Dominic Hamon
• Created: 06/Mar/14 19:12
• Updated: 24/May/17 17:03
• Resolved: 29/Aug/14 16:41

Description

As per MESOS-750, we are officially supporting g+-4.4 as the minimum version for C+11 support.

We should make sure the configure script 'm4/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx_11.m4' contains instances of every feature we want to support.

That list, as per http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html, would be:

• Rvalue references
• Variadic templates
• Initializer lists
• Static assertions
• auto
• decltype (but not call expressions)
• Right angle brackets
• SFINAE problem for expressions solved
• extern templates
• Strongly-typed enums
• New character types
• Default/deleted functions
• Inline namespaces
• Atomic ops (also in signal handlers)
• Propagating exceptions

The current template contains

• Right angle brackets
• static assertions
• decltype
• rvalue references
• auto

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: MESOS-750 Require compilers that support c++11
• relates to: MESOS-1872 Cleanup right angle bracket in the code base.
• relates to: MESOS-2549 Remove non-variadic strings::format