I have a C++14 project withe the Microsoft compiler in Visual Studio 2019 and I'm trying to understand Digraphs and Trigraphs, so my code is a bit weird:
#include "Trigraphs.h"
void Trigraphs::assert_graphs()
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// How does this ever compile ????/
ouch!
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Reading about the /Zc:trigraphs switch
Through C++14, trigraphs are supported as in C. The C++17 standard removes trigraphs from the C++ language.
I understand that trigraphs should be supported until C++14 because they were removed in C++17 only. Yet, the above code does not compile with C++14 settings until I add the additional command line switch. I am not a native English speaker, did I get something wrong about the sentence that trigraphs are supported until C++14?
MSDN also says:
and that seems to apply for C++14 already. Although that results in a non 100% conformant C++ compilation, most programmers will actually prefer not dealing with the strange symbols of C++ trigraphs.