Re: Using C++ for a test tool linking to wireshark

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

On 9 August 2017 at 20:21, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> On Aug 9, 2017, at 12:01 PM, Sultan, Hassan <sultah () amazon com> wrote:
>
> > Awesome :) so no concerns about C++ 11 then ?
>
> There's "concerns about C++" and there's "concerns about C++ 11".
>
> The Wireshark Developer's Guide:
>
>         https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChSetupWin3
> 2.html#ChSetupMSVC
>
> currently *recommends* Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition, and
> notes that we use that version to build the releases, but also mentions VS
> 2010.  VS 2010 supports some, but not all, features in the C++11 core
> language specification:
2.4 and master are now built with VS2015, so we need some doc updates.
Master might well move to VS2017 this year.  Personally I wouldn't worry
about any VS pre 2013.



>         https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh567368(v=vs.120).aspx
>
> GCC 4.8.1 is claimed to be feature-complete for C++ 11:
>
>         https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx-status.html#cxx11
>
> "Clang 3.3 and later implement all of the ISO C++ 2011 standard.":
>
>         https://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html
>
> but "By default, Clang builds C++ code according to the C++98 standard,
> with many C++11 features accepted as extensions. You can use Clang in C++11
> mode with the -std=c++11 option."
>
> I don't know which versions of various vendor compilers for UN*X (Oracle
> Studio, IBM XLC++ or whatever they call it, HP C++) support what versions
> of the C++ standard; this page:
>
>         http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support
>
> "is maintained as best-effort and may lag behind most recent compiler
> releases" but might be worth checking.
>
> If we were to require C++ 11 support, we might need to change the autoconf
> script or the CMake files to ensure that we use flags such as -std=C++11
> when building C++ code.
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