On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:38 AM, Guy Harris <g...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > > On Sep 30, 2015, at 6:53 PM, Guy Harris <g...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > >> I think the intent was to be able to run Wireshark's C code through C++ >> compilers; I can't find the mail where this was discussed, but, as I >> remember, the issue was that Microsoft were dragging their feet on C99 >> support, and we wanted to be able to use at least some features present in >> both C99 and the versions of C++ supported by the Microsoft compiler. >> >> Microsoft have gotten more receptive to C99 features; is this something we >> still want to contemplate - and to try to keep open as a possibility, by >> compiling with -Wc++-compat? >> >> If I try to build what's currently in master, it fails on my Yosemite >> machine, with Xcode 7.0.1 > > Not after rebuilding and reinstalling all the development libraries and doing > make maintainer-clean/autogen/configure/make. > > But what was the reason for adding checks for C++ compatibility, and does it > still apply?
My memory matches yours: it was about MSVC (and other more obscure compilers we theoretically support, on platforms I have never actually used**) not having C99 features. Part of me would like to take a hard line and say: "these are the C99 features we require, deal with it" but I don't know how much screaming that would entail. Another part of me would like to just switch to use C++ compilers on all our common platforms and start gradually introducing some of the useful, not-insanely-complex bits of C++ into the code-base, but I already know how much screaming that would entail :P ** `doc/README.developer` references IBM's compiler for AIX as one which lacks even basic C99 support like // comments. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe
