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++.
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