Re: [boost] [clang] clang-cl expansion of macros

Subject: Re: [boost] [clang] clang-cl expansion of macros
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-04-17 07:05:20

On 16 Apr 2016 at 7:58, degski wrote:

> On 16 April 2016 at 01:15, Edward Diener <eldiener_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> I have posted bug 27380 to the llvm/clang bug tracker...
> >
> 
> Thanks for not giving up (also @ Niall D.)!

Thanks for saying so, but we could do a lot better.

I flicked through the clang source code and as far as I can tell from 
a ten minute inspection, getting C99 preprocessor behaviour on MSVC 
ABI targets is as easy as flipping a boolean on. Most of the other 
MSVC preprocessor special behaviours only turn on with 
-fms-compatibility=on, and we no longer need that turned on to use 
Windows or indeed the MSVC CRT and STL. A source code patch ought to 
be mostly figuring out how to add a command line argument to control 
the C99 processor boolean, a few unit test cases to ensure rigour and 
lack of regression, and that's about it.

The real effort behind such a patch would be navigating the internal 
politics on getting the patch into trunk. I have no need in my own 
code for a C99 preprocessor, hence I am not willing to invest that 
effort. But others with a more pressing need may wish to do so.

Niall

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