Re: Do we still need/want -Wc++-compat?

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Sep 30, 2015, at 6:53 PM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> I think the intent was to be able to run Wireshark's C code through C++ compilers; I can't find the mail where this 
> was discussed, but, as I remember, the issue was that Microsoft were dragging their feet on C99 support, and we 
> wanted to be able to use at least some features present in both C99 and the versions of C++ supported by the 
> Microsoft compiler.
>
> Microsoft have gotten more receptive to C99 features; is this something we still want to contemplate - and to try to 
> keep open as a possibility, by compiling with -Wc++-compat?
>
> If I try to build what's currently in master, it fails on my Yosemite machine, with Xcode 7.0.1

Not after rebuilding and reinstalling all the development libraries and doing make 
maintainer-clean/autogen/configure/make.

But what was the reason for adding checks for C++ compatibility, and does it still apply?

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