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diff --git a/README.details b/README.details index 47fc2e27..96cac8b5 100644 --- a/README.details +++ b/README.details @@ -170,7 +170,13 @@ favours POSIX system and library calls over OS specific calls. The C code is written in a C++ friendly way and is checked from time to time that it compiles clean with C++. To accommodate C++ certain C99 -constructs such as designated initializers cannot be used. +constructs such as designated initializers cannot be used. To build +with C++, C++11 (i.e. the C++ standard from 2011) or later is required. +Finding a common C and C++ syntax for zeroing stack variables (including +aggregates) may need to wait until C23 allows this syntax: + struct example_t ex1 {}; +which C++ introduced in C++11. In the meantime the SG_C_CPP_ZERO_INIT +define (hack) does this. The author has not seriously attempted to build this code on MSVC (aka Visual Studio). There are a few roadblocks (that may be overcome in the @@ -542,4 +548,4 @@ See https://sg.danny.cz/sg/tools.html Douglas Gilbert dgilbert@interlog.com -10th June 2022 +12th August 2022 |