Show HN: C++ Compiler Support Page

20 pointsposted 3 days ago
by cemdervis

5 Comments

peapicker

2 days ago

My gosh. I'm having to support some older platforms (like OS/400) who STILL don't have C++11 support. And also for now, HP-UX and Solaris, which support up to C++14 (dead platforms - hoping to drop soon). Someday maybe I'll get to move on.

EE84M3i

2 days ago

Is it possible to generate this automatically using conformance tests?

cemdervis

2 days ago

Hi! That's certainly possible, and also what I'm already doing. However, it's very time-consuming to do it for every single feature. The compiler vendors already provide their feature-support tables for most features, which I've made a small bot for that watches for conformance changes. For feature support that is unclear or not provided by the vendors, I write conformance tests to verify. In my experience, this mix works best.

juliangmp

2 days ago

Very neat website! But it also really shows that C++ is bloated to hell

cemdervis

2 days ago

Thanks! I agree to an extent, but it's also the beast the industry married. So as long as it's around, we might as well "deal with it". This page is hopefully one tool that helps with that :)