get rid of C, move on to C++ about xmr-stak-cpu HOT 4 CLOSED

You will be surprised at the amount of people that sill have problems with c++11. The *_s functions are unfortunately ignored by the open source community (they are an optional part of C11) as a classic application of "Not Invented Here" syndrome.

In this particular case there are very few practical differences between fopen and fopen_s, and none of those have practical security implications. I won't enable _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS as this disables the warnings for much more important stuff like strcpy.

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Thus, you prohibit to compile it with pure MSVS 2015 (I mean without cmakes, mingws, cygwins, and other non-windows-dev-friendly stuff) Btw, its only change required to make it compile successfully. You just have to add define inside console.cpp file. Its effect will only spread on this file. Because i'd managed to compile thing only by editing sources console.cpp.. Also please consider using c++, in future like instead of pointer to pointer **. Do not use new, do not return pointers, use std::move, its less error prone in terms of memory manipulation, and is very convenient and readible.. just look at this: std::vector< std::thread > thWorkers; a.reserve(10); for( auto i = 0; i <10; i++ ) a.emplace_back( &some_func, someArgPassed );

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i want to say, just a good dev advice. either write in c for unix/embedded controllers/maths, or write in c++ for devs, try to not use old deprecated things, learn new ways how things are done nowadays. anyways, you did good job. sorry for my bad english, i tried my best :)

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While I wouldn't agree that language x is for that and language y is for that (I prefer to select the language based on the problem at hand, and I don't see either C or C++ as obsolete). If you have the inclination and time to suggest more C++11-like improvements in the code, please do - links to specific lines would be useful.

I finished my uni course in '10 and back then the popular gag was to call it C++never. After that I did way too much python for my liking, so this is my first real C++11 program.

I compile the Windows release using VC++ 14 too and apart from warnings I don't have any problems. Did you enable /WX option?

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