Tag: MarekPolacek
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C++20 Default: Red Hat Proposes Making the Latest Standard the Default in GCC
Red Hat compiler engineer Marek Polacek has proposed making the C++20 standard — more precisely, the GNU++20 dialect — the default mode in GCC whenever a developer does not explicitly specify another language version. At present, the compiler defaults to C++17 (GNU++17), a behaviour introduced roughly five years ago and unchanged since. In a message…