Re: [Nasm-devel] [nasm:master] iflag: Introduce IFLAG_INIT helper

[H. P. A. <hp...@zy...>]

On 12/13/2013 12:40 PM, Ed Beroset wrote:
> 
>> Yes, it would be good if we could compile with a C++ compiler.  It
>> shouldn't be all that hard to do, but I think I tried it at one point
>> and it will need some help.
> 
> It's not trivial, but it's more tedious than difficult and often results 
> in better code anyway.  We used gcc with the -Wc++-compat option to help 
> identify the problem areas.  When I did that with the wireshark project, 
> I found the following:
> 
> type	count 	percent
> implicit_casts	4013	81.58%
> keyword_use	634	12.89%
> enum_conversion	197	4.00%
> uninit_const	7	0.14%
> field_typedef	5	0.10%
> special_operator	3	0.06%
> incompat_ptr	2	0.04%
> other	58	1.18%
> 
> Because the vast majority of these (over 98%) were of only three 
> different kinds which are mostly trivial fixes, it didn't take that long 
> to plow through the entire project.  I haven't done this (and don't 
> realistically have the time for it) on the NASM project, but I would 
> strongly suspect a similar pattern.
> 

Enum conversion and void casts dominate in NASM.  This is unfortunately
rather painful to work through.

	-hpa