On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 07:24:07AM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Am 11.07.2017 um 02:05 schrieb brian m. carlson: > > 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. > > It's 3 cleanup patches and one hacky patch with this size: > > 80 files changed, 899 insertions(+), 807 deletions(-) > > to compile with C++. It passed the test suite last time I tried. Getting rid > of the remaining 1000+ -fpermissive warnings is a different matter, though. Yeah, that's the size I was thinking. My goal was "easily achievable in half an hour," which it didn't seem like at the time. > I can revive the patches if there is interest. I'd be interested in at least a pointer to them if you have one. I think it might allow us to take advantage of desirable features that are in the intersection of C99 and C++. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US https://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204
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