Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] C++ comments in 0.10.0

Note: This archive is from the project's previous web site, ethereal.com. This list is no longer active.

From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:40:44 +0100
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:55:59PM -0500, Devin Heitmueller wrote:
> Has anybody given thought to changing the Makefile to use "-ansi" for
> GCC?  This would eliminate the ability to do C++ comments along with
> some other non-portable features.  Are there any GCC specific features
> that we need?

Been there, failed to do that: When including the libpcap stuff,
compiling with -ansi fails. I asked about that problem on the tcpdump
mailing list a while (1 year??) ago, but received no helpful answer.

 Ciao
   Jörg

-- 
Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.