Nice! Object oriented comments. That should totally be a thing! :) On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Greg Harris <g...@harrisconsultinggroup.com> wrote:
> Some (many) years ago I was talking to this guy who was proudly telling me > he had upgraded his Pascal program to use the OO features of Delphi. > Great, tell me what features you are using I ask (expecting classes and > inheritance at least) > Answer: Oh the Delphi style // comments - Yeah - I had to bite my tongue! > Not being a C++ guy I can not tell you when the // style comment came in > for C based languages :-) > Happy New Year Everyone! > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 7:05 PM, DotNet Dude <adotnetd...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Try adding some C++ features and see what happens when you try to compile. >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:31 PM, DotNet Dude <adotnetd...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I think /TC tells VS it's C only? /TP is for C++. >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote: >>> >>>> I found the easiest way of making a plain C project (I hope) is to >>>> create a new C++ Empty Project, add a .c file then after some searching I >>>> found: >>>> >>>> Configuration Properties > C/C++ > Advanced > Compile As >>>> >>>> Which sets the /TP or /TC compile option. I'm still suspicious that >>>> this hasn't disabled all the C++ features though. >>>> >>>> *Greg K* >>>> >>>> On 5 January 2015 at 10:47, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Folks, I might have to migrate some Embarcadero/Borland C (not C++) >>>>> code over to Visual Studio, but I haven't written any C/C++ for about 10 >>>>> years now (thankfully). The C code mostly manipulates flat files and >>>>> performs heavy stats calculations, so there are no serious platform >>>>> dependencies to make conversion difficult. >>>>> >>>>> The trouble is, I've forgotten how to make a VS2013 C (not C++) >>>>> project, if such a thing is meaningful. I'm not even sure if the C >>>>> language >>>>> exists any more!! Do I have to flip some compiler options, or will the >>>>> '.c' >>>>> file suffix be recognised and prevent me from using any C++ headers or >>>>> features? >>>>> >>>>> It's a weird question, but C/C++ and projects and tools have changed >>>>> so much in the last decade that I'm disoriented. >>>>> >>>>> *Greg K* >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
