Re: ILE C++ standards

Hi, Charles,

If you really need the latest and greatest C++ standards, you should be looking into installing the GCC G++ compiler under PASE.  :-)

All the best,

 Mark S. Waterbury

> On Friday, July 10, 2020, 12:22:07 PM EDT, Charles Wilt <[email protected]> wrote: 





"You're surprised by this?"

A little yeah, I expected it to be behind...but 9+ years? :o

No, we don't do much C++, none in fact.  But I'd really like to have URI
Templating functionality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_Template in RPG
and since there were some existing C++, I thought it'd be worthwhile to see
if we could port one over.

Charles


On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 7:35 AM Kelly Beard <[email protected]>
wrote:

> You're surprised by this?  :-)  Not to sound rude or condescending, but
> you, like most everyone else in the universe, probably don't do a lot of
> C++ work on the 400.  Unfortunately, we do.  We're on V7R3 here.  IBM is
> not even on C++11, technically, but on C++0x, and you have to, for
> some reason, enable a command option to get that going.  Only God in Heaven
> knows why they cannot stay current.  I suspect that maybe the OS is written
> with whatever C++ was in force at the time and so that is what we're stuck
> with, but that's only my uneducated guess.
>
> How many lines is this utility?  Probably originally written on a Linux
> system with g++?
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 5:06 PM Charles Wilt <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > So we're trying to port a small C++ utility to ILE...
> >
> > One of the compile errors is on the following...
> > for(auto& ele : inVars)
> >
> > Apparently this the "for each" loop which was added to C++ in 2011...(aka
> > C++11)
> >
> > We're on v7.2, but even the v7.4 manual doesn't show it as valid.
> >
> > Looks like C++ on the IBM i include part of the C+11 standards, but not
> yet
> > all.  And of course C++14 and C++17 are nowhere to be found.
> >
> > Bit surprised the i is so far behind the times, but I suppose most don't
> > use ILE C/C++...
> >
> > Charles
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