Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Idle Thought - Compiling with C++

[Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/11/2013 06:36 PM, Evan Huus wrote:
> Moving just to a C++ compiler shouldn't cause problems for anybody.
> While C++ isn't technically a superset of C, it is trivial for C
> programmers to avoid the few areas of incompatibility (as far as I
> know there are simply a few more reserved words like 'new' to avoid in
> variable names).
> 

Add this the the reading list: http://david.tribble.com/text/cdiffs.htm
May not be all applicable (C89 and such) but show what a can-o-worms it can be.
That's probably where that 7k number comes from.

Thanks,
Jaap