On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 5:05 PM, brian m. carlson <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?
