On 30/03/2019 08:13, Albert Abramson wrote:
Now I'm on a totally unrelated project, writing code in C, but still using
the GCC compiler under the hood. The previous developers used raw pointers
quite a bit. However, as I expand the code, I'd like to use some of the
features in C++, but Atmel Studio doesn't REALLY support C++.
Code::Blocks is letting me turn warning flags on and off, but I don't see
the same for individual C++ features. (Lots of subsets of C++, but I
really need a true superset of C.)
Is there some way to manually turn on individual C++17 features, one at a
time? I read somewhere that you can, but I don't see the post online
anywhere. And if I create a list of individual C++ features, can this made
into a kind of standard, shared with other programmers? In other words,
I'd like to make use of lambdas, namespaces, smart pointers, range-based
for loops, and a few others that would save me a lot of time and maybe even
reduce the size of the binary (since we're very RAM limited in the embedded
world).
I'm writing about this on the Facebook page "C+ Project," which is open to
all programmers.
Your post here is new - it is not helpful to make it a follow-up on a 6
year old conversation. And it is not helpful to write as though we are
all familiar with what you are doing and the projects you work on.
To get the crux of the matter, it seems that you want to write mainly C,
but use some C++17 features. The way to do that is with C++17. You
don't "turn on individual C++17 features" - you enable C++17 support
(with the "-std=gnu++17" flag support) and just use the features you
want (limited by the lack of C++ libraries for the AVR).
If you choose to use an IDE and use it to control compiler flags, there
is always a way to manually enter flags yourself.
