[petsc-dev] C++11, compatibility versus simplicity

[Aron Ahmadia]

Installing a new GCC on a supercomputer is an incredible pain.  Might
work at ANL, highly doubtful many other places.

A

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Tim Tautges <tautges at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> Lots of missing spaces for XL.  What about Cray, can't remember the compiler
> flavor they use.  But anyway, surely you're not expecting your users to
> install their own GCC or LLVM, right?
>
> - tim
>
>
> On 10/03/2013 03:26 PM, Jed Brown wrote:
>>
>> Tim Tautges <tautges at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>>
>>> Any idea how well the standard large parallel platforms support C++11?
>>
>>
>> You can install a recent version of GCC anywhere and Clang most places.
>> The LLVM backend for Blue Gene is pretty good (or XL is pretty bad).
>> Other compilers have varying levels of support.
>>
>> http://wiki.apache.org/stdcxx/C%2B%2B0xCompilerSupport
>>
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