[PATCH] Driver: bifurcate extended and basic MSC versioning

[Kim Gräsman]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Aaron Ballman <aaron.ballman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Reid Kleckner <rnk at google.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Kim Gräsman <kim.grasman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think Alp is refering to _MSC_FULL_VER from here:
>>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b0084kay.aspx
>>>
>>> That said, I'm not sure this option is a perfect representation of that
>>> symbol.
>>>
>>> I don't like "extended version" either, so I'm going out on a limb:
>>> -fmsc-version-string?
>
> If it required quotes, like -fmsc-version-string="17.00" that might be
> reasonable.
>
>> -fmsc-dotted-version?
>
> That's an interesting choice.
>
> Another idea: -fmsc-compiler-version?

I think "msc" expands to "MicroSoft Compiler", so repeating "compiler"
seems unfortunate. -fmsc-version would be great, but... d'oh!

- Kim