SonarQube developer edition 7.8 Unsupported value of __cplusplus macro: 201709L

Running into “java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Unsupported value of __cplusplus macro: 201709L”

Here is the log:
18:13:10.440 ERROR: Error during SonarQube Scanner execution
java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Unsupported value of __cplusplus macro: 201709L
at com.sonar.cpp.analyzer.StdFlags.fromCppMacros(StdFlags.java:43)
at com.sonar.cpp.analyzer.ClangDriver.onCapture(ClangDriver.java:346)
at com.sonar.cpp.plugin.CFamilySensor.process(CFamilySensor.java:266)
at com.sonar.cpp.plugin.CFamilySensor.execute(CFamilySensor.java:198)
at org.sonar.scanner.sensor.AbstractSensorWrapper.analyse(AbstractSensorWrapper.java:48)
at org.sonar.scanner.sensor.ModuleSensorsExecutor.execute(ModuleSensorsExecutor.java:85)
at org.sonar.scanner.sensor.ModuleSensorsExecutor.execute(ModuleSensorsExecutor.java:62)
at org.sonar.scanner.scan.ModuleScanContainer.doAfterStart(ModuleScanContainer.java:82)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:136)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:122)
at org.sonar.scanner.scan.ProjectScanContainer.scan(ProjectScanContainer.java:400)
at org.sonar.scanner.scan.ProjectScanContainer.scanRecursively(ProjectScanContainer.java:395)
at org.sonar.scanner.scan.ProjectScanContainer.doAfterStart(ProjectScanContainer.java:358)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:136)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:122)
at org.sonar.scanner.bootstrap.GlobalContainer.doAfterStart(GlobalContainer.java:141)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:136)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:122)
at org.sonar.batch.bootstrapper.Batch.doExecute(Batch.java:73)
at org.sonar.batch.bootstrapper.Batch.execute(Batch.java:67)
at org.sonarsource.scanner.api.internal.batch.BatchIsolatedLauncher.execute(BatchIsolatedLauncher.java:46)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.sonarsource.scanner.api.internal.IsolatedLauncherProxy.invoke(IsolatedLauncherProxy.java:60)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy0.execute(Unknown Source)
at org.sonarsource.scanner.api.EmbeddedScanner.doExecute(EmbeddedScanner.java:189)
at org.sonarsource.scanner.api.EmbeddedScanner.execute(EmbeddedScanner.java:138)
at org.sonarsource.scanner.cli.Main.execute(Main.java:112)
at org.sonarsource.scanner.cli.Main.execute(Main.java:75)
at org.sonarsource.scanner.cli.Main.main(Main.java:61)

Hi @chintalaabhi,

201709L indicates that you are likely using -std=c++2a, as it is not an official standard we don’t support it as it is not stable yet in compilers and implementations differ between each others.

Upgrading it to 8+ will fix the above error?

Hi @chintalaabhi,

No, we are currently not supporting -std=c++2a unreleased standard, you my want to consider using C++17 for now which is well supported by compilers.

I verified with dev’s, we are Using C++17 and we decided not to run sonar scans for RHEL.

Hi @chintalaabhi,

then you should be fine.

I don’t find any correlation with previous discussion.

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