[Rcpp-devel] RcppParallel on Solaris

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 13 April 2015 at 09:42, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
| On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
| 
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|     On 13 April 2015 at 08:03, JJ Allaire wrote:
|     | I'll have to take a closer look at the warnings. One other issue that
|     | needs to be resolved prior to the next submission to CRAN revolves
|     | around pedantic warnings on Debian testing that prohibit "long long"
|     | (used by both TinyThread and TBB). The easy workaround is
|     | SystemRequirements: C++11 however this will mean that package won't
|     | compile on pre-Mavericks Macs (~30% of all Macs) nor RedHat/CentOS
|     | systems. Perhaps I can modify TinyThread and TBB to no longer use
|     | "long long" but I'll need to do this very carefully.
| 
|     I never found another way to get 'long long' besides requiring C++11.
| 
| 
| It might be fine, actually. I have a package with long long on CRAN, and yes,
| they asked me to "fix it", but like for you, it is in upstream code, so I am
| not really comfortable removing it, and CRAN seems to be OK with it now.
| 
| Other packages seem to have it, too: https://github.com/search?q=
| user%3Acran+%22long+long%22&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93
| I doubt that these all require C++11.
| 
| Also, all compilers they use have long long, so what is the point, really?

It has been discussed on this list a million times. Someone define C99 to be
ok (has long long) yet insists on C++98 (does not).  End of story "because
C++03 does not exist in that parallel universe" but switching to C++11 helps.

Dirk

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