Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:12:17 -0700
On Monday, 30 June 2025 06:01:34 Pacific Daylight Time Matthew Taylor via Std-
Proposals wrote:
> they are permanently on C++98/03 and so there is little point in changing
> how we design C++26 or C++29 to account for them.
But unless the architectures themselves are end-of-lifed, we can't guess the
future. There could be a point when there's a requirement from their users to
update, but that can only happen if it is still possible.
In any case, how does the standard change in any way by requiring 8-bit bytes?
Proposals wrote:
> they are permanently on C++98/03 and so there is little point in changing
> how we design C++26 or C++29 to account for them.
But unless the architectures themselves are end-of-lifed, we can't guess the
future. There could be a point when there's a requirement from their users to
update, but that can only happen if it is still possible.
In any case, how does the standard change in any way by requiring 8-bit bytes?
-- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org Principal Engineer - Intel Platform & System Engineering
Received on 2025-07-01 05:12:22