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C++ Cookbook
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C++ Cookbook

by D. Ryan Stephens, Christopher Diggins, Jonathan Turkanis, Jeff Cogswell
November 2005
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
594 pages
16h 23m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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1.24. Enforcing Strict Conformance to the C++ Standard

Problem

You want your compiler to accept only programs that conform to the C++ language standard.

Solution

Command-line options for specifying strict conformance to the C++ standard are listed in Table 1-37. Instructions for enforcing strict conformance from your IDE are given in Table 1-38.

Tip

Some of the compiler options I introduced in Table 1-6 can be considered conformance options. Examples include options to enable basic language features such as wide-character support, exceptions, and runtime type information. I’ve omitted these in Table 1-37.

Table 1-37. Enforcing strict conformance from the command line

Toolset

Command-line compiler options

GCC

-ansi -pedantic-errors

Visual C++

-Za

Intel (Windows)

-Za -Qms0

Intel (Linux)

-strict-ansi [19]

Metrowerks

-ansi strict -iso_templates on -msext off

Comeau (Windows)

—A

Comeau (Unix)

—strict or -A

Borland

-A [20]

Digital Mars

-A

[19] Versions of the Intel compiler for Linux prior to 9.0 used the option -strict_ansi. When using -strict-ansi or -strict_ansi, it may be necessary to enable Intel’s standard library, using the option -cxxlib-icc.

[20] With the option -A, some of the standard headers from the STLPort library may fail to compile.

Table 1-38. Enforcing strict conformance from your IDE

IDE

Configuration

Visual C++

From your project’s property pages, go to Configuration Properties C/C++ Language and set Disable Language Extensions, ...

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