Recover from errors

[Giovanni Bajo]

Grigorio V. Moshkin <grigorio@garant.ru> wrote:

> I am porting one large windows application to linux. Code is formerly
> platform independent. But, Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC) 6 is very
> unserious with ISO C++ standard.

MSVC6 predates the ISO C++ standard.

> For exemple, consider the fragment:
>
> class A {
> public:
> virtual void func() throw (C, D);
> };
>
> class B: public A {
> public:
> void func();
> };
>
> Of course, gcc notices the error:
> "looser throw specifier for `virtual void func()'". And, it's ISO C++
> strict rule. But MSVC doesn't emit an error and simply compiles that
> code.
>
> The problem is there are too many fragments of code above with this
> tipical error and other few tipical errors.
>
> Does gcc allow (maybe via an undocumented option or slight SOURCE
> HACKING (thats because I write to gcc-BUGS mailing list)) to generate
> C++ code with this tipical errors FIXED? I ask just because I see,
> gcc does collect all SUFFICIENT (enough) INFO to FIX that tipical
> erros.

GCC is not able to reproduce the C++ source code it compiles on the output, let
alone modified. Just fix the bugs in your code like everyone else does :)

Giovanni Bajo