Re: [boost] [clang] Using clang in Windows

Subject: Re: [boost] [clang] Using clang in Windows
From: Richard (legalize+jeeves_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-07-17 21:58:32

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"Paul A. Bristow" <pbristow_at_[hidden]> spake the secret code
<004401cfa03f$b944c770$2bce5650$@hetp.u-net.com> thusly:

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Edward Diener
>> Sent: 15 July 2014 15:48
>> To: boost_at_[hidden]
>> Subject: Re: [boost] [clang] Using clang in Windows
>> 
>> On 7/15/2014 5:01 AM, Paul A. Bristow wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of
>> >> Edward Diener
>> >> Sent: 14 July 2014 22:08
>> >> To: boost_at_[hidden]
>> >> Subject: Re: [boost] [clang] Using clang in Windows
>> >>
>> >> On 7/14/2014 1:35 PM, Paul A. Bristow wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>> -----Original Message-----
>> >>>> From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of
>> >>>> Edward Diener
>> >>>> Sent: 14 July 2014 08:06
>> >>>> To: boost_at_[hidden]
>> >>>> Subject: [boost] [clang] Using clang in Windows
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Just a note to everybody about using clang in Windows
>
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>> > Perhaps we have to wait for Microsoft to produce an (presumably)
>> > optional 'correct' pre-processor?
>> 
>> I recall some post about this related to one of the Boost developers talking
>to Herb
>> Sutter about the non-standard VC++ preprocessor and getting a verbal promise
>that
>> Microsoft would finally produce a standard conforming C++ preprocessor for
>VC++.
>> But I believe that Microsoft has made similar "noises" in that direction over
>the years
>> and nothing has ever happened so I am not sanguine about it happening anytime
>> soon.
>
>Can we produce any collective Boost wish to help this to happen?

My suggestion has been to identify (or create) the issues on connect
that call out the non-conformant behavior and have the entire
community vote them up and comment on them.

Most open issues against the compiler or the IDE have one or two
votes.  It's easy to disregard these as having minimal impact on the
user base.  Even if it was only *library authors* that upvoted these
issues on connect, they would stand out significantly.  If lots of
boost/C++ users upvoted them, then it would stand out in a huge way.
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