Arthur Pemberton <pemboa <at> gmail.com> writes:
> and basically, if it
> compiles in Visual Studio, it will compile in g++.
Not really... There are some non-standard constructs which M$VC++ accepts and
g++ (at least current versions of it) don't, for example lvalue casts.
Moreover, for both compilers, the older the version, the less compliant to the
standard they are. But I believe, even if you compare current version against
current version, g++ is more compliant, meaning it will accept some constructs
compliant to the standard which M$VC++ rejects and reject some non-standard
constructs which M$VC++ accepts.
Also beware that g++ puts compliance above backwards-compatibility. Newer
versions are known to reject constructs which have worked before (or which work
in M$VC++) if they're not allowed by the standard. Sometimes -fpermissive helps
(you'll still get a warning, but at least the code will compile), sometimes it
doesn't.
Kevin Kofler
