[PATCH] D36857: [Driver] Set linkPath and MSVT version when cl.exe is detected, plus STL's hacking.

[don hinton via Phabricator via cfe-commits]

hintonda added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D36857#845465, @thakis wrote:

> Oh, I guess this is superseded by https://reviews.llvm.org/D36860 ?


Yes, please ignore this patch -- it was just for brainstorming...  ;-)



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Comment at: lib/Driver/ToolChains/MSVC.cpp:135
+      llvm::SmallString<256> TestPath = PathEntry;
+      while(!TestPath.empty()) {
         TestPath = llvm::sys::path::parent_path(TestPath);
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thakis wrote:
> Having a while loop going up the directory tree stating around on every compiler invocation for supporting a fairly narrow use case seems a bit unfortunate. Maybe we could instead add a flag (or just a cc1 flag, even) to override the check instead?
Agreed, this patch was abandoned...


https://reviews.llvm.org/D36857