Main incompatibility of C code in C++
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Well my question is simple: what are the main things one should watch out for when looking at C code to "port" them to C++ code?
What do you mean exactly by "porting" C code to C++? Most modern C++ compilers support the relevant features of C99, meaning that C code will generally compile as C++. Cases where features exist in C99 but not in C++98/03, such as long long, are usually bridged by compiler extensions. Perhaps you're referring to the process of converting a procedural system into an object-oriented one?
Quote:Original post by paul23
Well my question is simple: what are the main things one should watch out for when looking at C code to "port" them to C++ code?
There are very little issues that you might encounter when compiling C as C++ (in terms of compiler errors). For example, if you have some really really old C then you might encounter the old-style function parameters:
func(a, b) // implicit int return type// declaring the parameter typesint a;char b;{ if (b == 'a') return a; return 42;}Which is not valid in C++.
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Quote:Original post by Windryder
What do you mean exactly by "porting" C code to C++? Most modern C++ compilers support the relevant features of C99, meaning that C code will generally compile as C++. Cases where features exist in C99 but not in C++98/03, such as long long, are usually bridged by compiler extensions. Perhaps you're referring to the process of converting a procedural system into an object-oriented one?
Nah, just to those feature cases as you said.. - It's not that the code won't compile, I just want to know the differences..
There are a few C99 features that are not supported by most C++ compilers. For example, most C++ compilers seem to ignore the C99 restrict keyword.
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