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 16:19:24

On 29 September 2013 21:12, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 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.

Errr, that's what I said. I was suggesting that they could test with
BOOST_COMPILER_CONFIG set to the Visual C++ header so it will be set
in *their* tests. For our use BOOST_MSVC wouldn't be set.