[Libreoffice] nullptr, was: Suggestion: Let's switch to using MSVC2010 on Windows for master

[Jesús Corrius]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Caolán McNamara <caolanm at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 04:07 -0600, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
>> is nullptr supported in the gcc versions used on other platforms? So is
>> it better to just use 0 cast to the appropriate  pointer type instead?
>
> AFAIK nullptr is part of c++0x and available on gcc >= 4.6.0 in c++0x as
> a built-in. It might be available in non c++0x-mode with an extra
> include, but as far as I know its not in earlier gccs, so a
> static_cast<pointer_type*>(0) is probably the best way to go when it
> arises.
>
> As an aside, I tried a quick-hack on the icu issue with adding in a
> revert patch of the upstream icu conversion of their .vcproj files
> to .vxproj files during their 4.6 cycle, but the fixups of that turned
> out to be non-trivial as well, and looked as tricky to pull off as
> either
>
> a) writing a full set of nmake .mak files anyway, or
> b) writing a .vxproj parser to generate them automatically anyway.

Have you looked at what I did for Python to compile it with VS2010? It
looks like the same problem.

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