bug#51092: [PATCH] Recognize consteval and constinit modifiers in C++

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, Lars and Evan.

On Sat, Sep 10, 2022 at 07:19:04 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> >> > -  c++  (append '("constexpr" "explicit" "friend" "mutable" "template"
> >> > -		 "thread_local" "virtual")
> >> > +  c++  (append '("consteval" "constexpr" "constinit" "explicit"
> >> > +		 "friend" "mutable" "template" "thread_local" "virtual")

> >> Makes sense to me; perhaps Alan has some comments, so I've added him to
> >> the CCs.

> > As the maintainer of CC Mode, i'm in two minds over this.  It's clearly
> > a step in the right direction.  But there's a non-trivial amount of work
> > to be done to implement C++20's new features, and having just those few
> > new keywords and nothing else in the release branch might jar.

> There wasn't much followup here.

Sorry, I think that was my fault.

> Alan, isn't the proposed patch a step in the right direction anyway,
> even if it doesn't add full C++20 support?

Yes, I think it's time to apply the patch.  It would have been a year
ago, too.  Are you (Lars) going to apply it, or should I?

Just as a matter of interest, I'm working on C++20 stuff at the moment,
and have an almost ready implementation of module/import/export.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).