On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Óscar Fuentes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ofv@wanadoo.es" target="_blank">ofv@wanadoo.es</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
* To understand why they chose to work on MS C++ ABI compatibility<br>
instead of other most basic missing features that preclude using<br>
Clang for serious C++ development. I'll be grateful if anyone<br>
involved on the MS C++ ABI comments on this (it was already mentioned<br>
that Wine is interested on that feature, but I don't understand why.)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Clang is also being increasingly used by tools and having proper MSVC C++ ABI support is very valuable for extracting all kinds of information for interop purposes (record layouts, vftable layouts, mangling, etc).</div>
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* To ensure that everybody knows that supporting the MS C++ ABI is not<br>
required at all for being a Windows compiler. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is if you need to use closed source libraries from vendors that only publish MSVC builds.</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>João Matos