Re: -ansi vs. V3

[Tom Leete <tleete at mountain dot net>]

Mark Mitchell wrote:
> 
> I've gotten a couple of off-list emails about this.
> 
> I'm not sure what to do.  I think the right thing is to have a a
> different preprocessor spec for C++ than C, so that -ansi can be
> handled differently in C++.  It turns out that `g++ -ansi' is broken
> on AIX, OpenServer, and probably some other platforms as well.
> 
> Another approach would simply be not to use -ansi in the testsuite
> when running `make check-g++'.  That might be simplest, in the short
> term.  Then, everyone could run tests, and it actually makes sense to
> test the default options most heavily.  Then, if users want to use
> -ansi, they may find it doesn't work some places -- but they can
> always fall back to *not* using -ansi.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> --
> Mark Mitchell                   mark@codesourcery.com
> CodeSourcery, LLC               http://www.codesourcery.com

Strict ansi C++ should require the use of, eg.:
#include <cstdio>
rather than
#include <stdio.h>

The latter gives trouble on any platform.

Cheers,
Tom

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