Re: [boost] Boost and clang under Windows

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost and clang under Windows
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-09-29 16:12:32

On Sunday 29 September 2013 20:57:56 Daniel James wrote:
> 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.

BOOST_MSVC should only be defined for genuine MSVC, not for any pretenders. 
That's the whole point of this macro.