On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Vincent Pit <perl@profvince.com> wrote: >> >> But people do manual builds with g++ fairly regularly as a stricter, >> trouble-seeking C. I think it's just that in the unusual case of >> bool, C is where the trouble is. >> > > I think you mean "stricter non-C". :) When you throw C code at a C++ compiler and it finds real problems that a C compiler didn't catch, then for all practical purposes it's a stricter C compiler. > The only legitimate use of a C++ compiler to build perl is to check that the > headers are both valid C and C++. In that case, illegitimacy is more fun, or at least of more practical benefit. See paragraph 4 of <http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg174792.html>.Thread Previous | Thread Next