Time for C++20.

[William Kennington]

Just use https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt format like many repos are already doing.

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 8:18 AM Bills, Jason M
<jason.m.bills at linux.intel.com> wrote:
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> On 4/14/2021 1:11 PM, Patrick Williams wrote:
> > Hello.
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> > Per [1], as a project we've generally committed to using the latest C++
> > standard.  C++20 was released in early Sept. 2020 and already had pretty
> > decent compiler support at the time it was released.  We're currently
> > using GCC10 and according to [2] it has support for nearly every C++20
> > feature I could see us regularly wanting to use(*).  It seems like it
> > is a reasonable time for us to move on to it.
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> > * - Except I recall seeing some mention of std::source_location being
> >      useful to fix some of the issues with phosphor-logging, but that
> >      won't be available until GCC11.
> I just remembered and was excited to finally use std::format only to
> find that it isn't available in GCC.  Even the example code on the
> reference page fails to run:
> https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/format/format. :)
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> I couldn't find anywhere that GCC has plans to include std::format.
> Does anyone know if or when std::format might be added to GCC?
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