[cfe-dev] [PATCH] MS compatibility flag implies delayed parsing

[Douglas Gregor]

On Nov 8, 2011, at 6:56 AM, Aaron Ballman wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Eli Friedman <eli.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't see why the changes to lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp and
>> include/clang/Driver/CC1Options.td are necessary.  The changes to
>> lib/Driver/Tools.cpp look fine.
> 
> I'm not certain I understand why the two are separate from one
> another.  Can you give me a quite education on the topic?
> 
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Francois Pichet <pichet2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How about we remove --fdelayed-template-parsing altogether and check
>> for fms-compatibility to do late template parsing?
>> 
>> Anybody else needs delayed template parsing without microsoft compatibility?
> 
> That would be the best solution IMO, but I wasn't sure if anyone was
> relying on them being separated.  If no one objects, I can remove the
> delayed template parsing param and simply roll the functionality into
> MS compatibility.  But I do have one question on this -- should I
> simply remove the flag entirely (so people start getting warnings
> about unused flags), or should I leave the flag in and make it no-op?

I suggest removing the driver-level "-fdelayed-template-parsing" (from lib/Driver/Tools.cpp and include/clang/Driver/Options.td). However, please leave -fdelayed-template-parsing as a separate "-cc1" option, because delayed template parsing can be useful even when we're not emulating MSVC.

	- Doug