From: brian m. carlson Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 00:10:42 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] strbuf: use designated initializers in STRBUF_INIT Message-ID: <20170711001042.73ht73fvecjoprt5@genre.crustytoothpaste.net> In-Reply-To: On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 05:07:43PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 5:05 PM, brian m. carlson > wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 09:57:40PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote: > >> It's a pity, though, that you do not suggest something even more useful, > >> such as C++14. > > > > I have tried compiling Git with a C++ compiler, so that I could test > > whether that was a viable alternative for MSVC in case its C++ mode > > supported features its C mode did not. Let's just say that the > > compilation aborted very quickly and I gave up after a few minutes. > > ... because we use reserved C++ keywords such as 'new' as variable names? Yes, that was part of it ("template" stuck out to me). I don't remember all the issues, but they seemed quite numerous. I'm sure it can be done, though, if it's valuable to someone. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US https://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204