Cantor, Scott <[email protected]> writes: > I don't know what the baseline has been for the code base, is C99 a > reasonable requirement? > > I need SIZE_MAX to fix some bounds checking errors, just need to know > if I need to waste time on an autoconf test for it.
My experience has been that supporting a standard (like C99 or C++98) is pretty pointless, especially for things like C++11 and beyond: most compilers these days only support a subset of their features. Your case is a good example: VC is not C99-compliant but has SIZE_MAX. When it comes to C++, VC supports features from 14 and 17 while not being fully C++11-compliant. So what we found works much better is to define a set of compilers and their versions that we support -- any feature supported by all of them is fair play. Perhaps we should do something like this for Xerces-C++, especially if we plan to start migrating to C++11. In fact, this will be a great aid to gradual migration since we can just start using new features if they are available in all the supported compilers. Boris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
