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Re: Selecting a C++ standard
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Selecting a C++ standard |
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Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:04:20 -0800 |
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On 01/10/2013 09:19 PM, Dave Goodell wrote:
> There were some contrived examples, as well as one slightly less
> contrived one that had to do with enum scoping differences between
> C89 and C99:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2012-10/msg00080.html
I dunno, that one's pretty contrived as well. I can't imagine
any real program that would run afoul of it.
> what is definitely needed is the ability to prevent AC_PROG_CC from
> always selecting the latest version of the language supported by the
> compiler/environment.
That sounds low priority to me, but if someone implements it cleanly
for us I suppose it could go in.
> Right now we accomplish (A) with a (fairly ugly) autoconf macro [1]
> when "--enable-strict" is passed to our configure.
That sort of thing should still work, though I haven't tested it.
If it doesn't, please let us know.