Re: [boost] Boost and clang under Windows

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost and clang under Windows
From: Daniel James (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-09-29 15:57:56

On 29 September 2013 19:52, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Please do not do that. I had face-to-face meetings this week with Chandler
> Carruth
> and others working on Clang for Windows. They are depending on Boost's
> tests to find bugs in Clang's emulation of Visual C++, and if you work
> around their bugs it will deprive them of a valuable testing tool.

They should be testing with BOOST_COMPILER_CONFIG set to
"boost/config/compiler/visualc.hpp". That way BOOST_MSVC and the
appropriate compatibility macros will be set for them, but we can
still use BOOST_MSVC to treat Visual C++ differently to clang.