Growing major version

Posted Feb 15, 2026 1:55 UTC (Sun) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Growing major version by excors
Parent article: The first half of the 7.0 merge window

GCC and Clang do this (AFAIK) to differentiate "C++23 in progress" from "C++23 as standardized" in the run up to C++23 actually being completed.