[cfe-dev] Clang-cl.exe and the VC++ preprocessor

[Nikola Smiljanic]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 6:56 AM, Edward Diener <
eldlistmailingz at tropicsoft.com> wrote:

>
> Am MSVC-compatible preprocessor is a broken preprocessor. How can this be
> an excellent thing ? If the idea is to emulate VC++ in every respect, there
> is no point in using clang-cl. Really !
>
> Again there is no point in using clang if you are just going to emulate
> VC++. Is not the idea to produce a standard conforming compiler for people
> to use on their VC++ code which is better and cleaner than VC++ with all
> its bugs.
>
>
C'mon Edward, surely you're joking? Even if it emulates msvc bugs clang
still compiles faster, has better diagnostics, has better language support,
has static analyzer... There's a number of reasons for people to use it.

Nikola
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