Re: V7R3 C++ questions

Hi all,

	The supported language extensions for the C and C++ compiler are
documented in the IBM i Knowledge Center.  Here is a link to the v7r3
version of this documentation:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_73/rzarg/aix_cpp_extensions.htm
.

	The compiler developers are adding new features every release.  I was
once a member of this team, and when I was part of the team there were
three primary criteria for what features were added:

   Low hanging fruit (features which are trivial to support)
   Features which the compiler team believes will be used by customers (the
   compiler team usually has to guess here)
   Features requested by customers (these are given the highest priority)

I believe this is still the general philosophy of the team.  I know that
the compiler team does have members that occasionally visit this forum, so
I would recommend posting details on exactly what you are missing.  It will
help the compiler team bump that functionality up their priority list, and
it is also possible that you've discovered a bug in a feature that is
supposed to be working.

If there is a feature that you feel is particularly important I would
recommend submitting a request for enhancement (RFE) (or upvoting an
existing request if one already exists for the feature you would like to
see).  This is probably the best way to make sure that IBM knows you care
about a particular issue.  Susan Gartner recently wrote a very nice article
on The Four Hundred about how to submit an RFE:
https://www.itjungle.com/2017/01/30/guru-got-great-idea-tell-ibm/.  The
article is focused on submitting a request for RPG, but to do the same
thing for C/C++ you just need to specify "Languages - Other" instead of
"Languages - RPG" for the component.

Thanks,

Aaron Albertson


"C400-L" <c400-l-bounces-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote on 02/03/2017 07:52:53 AM:

> From: Justin Taylor <[email protected]>
> To: "c400-l-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]" <c400-l-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
> Date: 02/03/2017 07:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [C400-L] V7R3 C++ questions
> Sent by: "C400-L" <c400-l-bounces-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
>
> Excellent question.  I don't do a lot of C++, but I was this week
> and ran into something not supported.  I went looking to find the
> compiler info, but came up empty.
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