CoCoA » CoCoALib

Maintaining backward compatibility with pre-2011 C++ is probably fairly pointless, and is causing problems with users who want to use more recent versions of C++. Gereon reports that auto_ptr has been removed from C++17.

• make appropriate changes so that std::move can be used
• (related to "move" above) change void fns which return single values via an OUT arg
• [DONE] use atomic counters instead of ThreadsafeCounter (see #1259)
• use auto type for some local variables (see issue #1242)
• [DELEGATED] there is a new syntax for for loops with iterators (see issue #1346)
• there are new machine integer types (investigate!)
• other???
• [DONE] replace auto_ptr by unique_ptr (or whatever is appropriate)
• [DONE] modify configure script, and replace auxiliary script cxx03.sh by cxx14.sh
• [DONE] use nullptr instead of NULL or 0 (see #1257)

Note: add new entries as we think of them (then tick them off)

Check that the new configuration system works on several different platforms (incl. Microsoft???)

John Abbott wrote:

JAA has checked in latest changes. Hope they work for Anna!

whateve that was, it compiles and run the tests!