Is it time to say goodbye to VC6 compiler?

Question

Of late I\'m facing the issues that points finger to VC6 compiler.

Few of them are:

1. A function-try-block doesn\'t work. Related Q
2. in-class constan

Answer 1

You can learn to live with VC6s foibles. It almost has a certain retro charm these days. We've been repeatedly providing "just one last VC6 release" of some libraries to a customer for years now. Hard to argue with a customer prepared to pay for the extra work backporting and maintaining a branch. But at some point the cost for us to backport newer features developed in newer VCs will exceed the cost of them upgrading at their end (especially as more boost and Intel TBB creeps into the codebase's head). Or at least I hope that's what'll happen! Worst case it'll happen just as flaky C++0x support appears and we'll be stuck supporting that for them for 10 years...