[cfe-dev] Extra #defines for Windows SDK 6.0a/VS2008

[per at lumai.se]

As I managed to reply without CC:ing the list,

...setting _MSC_VER greater than 1100 causes even more strange 
extensions to be included that are presumably supported by later MSVC 
versions... ;-) 1100 seems to be the lowest value that works OK.

Maybe a first step is to support 1100 and then becoming more "bold" by 
adding support for different versions, more extensions etc?

(Sorry for not replying to the right groups/people. I'm sorta new to 
this new strange phenomena of newsgroups ;-))
-- 
Per Lindén

Douglas Gregor skrev 2010-08-06 16:31:
>
> On Aug 6, 2010, at 4:00 PM, Jesse Towner wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 15:24 +0200, Douglas Gregor wrote:
>>
>>> I wonder how much will break if we start defining _MSC_VER? Does anyone know how mingw deals with this?
>>>
>>
>> I recently replied to Per on this, but forgot to CC it to the list, so
>> I'll provide the relevant stuff here.
>>
>> MinGW has it's own version of the Platform SDK headers
>> in /include/w32api, and unfortunately it has a hard time working with
>> with the latest Platform SDK, DirectX SDK, or other SDK releases from
>> Microsoft until someone ports it to work with MinGW. I think Cygwin is
>> the same.
>>
>> Intel C++ mimics MSVC++ to the extent that it defines _MSC_VER and
>> supports the same compiler extensions, and developers accustomed to
>> checking for __INTEL_COMPILER/__ICL before _MSC_VER to differentiate
>> between the two. That way it acts as a drop-in replacement for MSVC++.
>> And naturally, ICC also mimics GCC on Linux.
>>
>> Borland C++ came with it's own copy of the Platform SDK headers, but I
>> think in it's later days it became compatible with MSVC++ in the same
>> way that Intel C++ is. I'm not 100% sure though.
>
> Okay, let's go for it. I don't have access to Visual Studio, so I'm asking for people with access to this compiler to provide patches. I strongly suggest going through the predefined macros documented here:
>
> 	http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b0084kay.aspx
>
> and making sure that, when we're in Microsoft mode (something that we may need to add, beyond just -fms-extensions), we define all of the same things they do. For example, _CPPRTTI when RTTI is enabled. Just adding _MSC_VER is only a partial solution that isn't likely to help all that much in isolation.
>
> Which version of Visual C++ do we emulate? I'm guessing Visual Studio 2008 (_MSC_VER = 1500), since VS2010 has C++0x features that we don't support.
>
> 	- Doug